One Way to Improve: Listen to Your Customers

Police: Survey Those Who Use Your Services This is a very important subject. How do we know how we are … More

What If It’s the Barrel and Not the Apples?

With regard to the often criminal use of deadly force by police we hear that the cause is “bad apples” … More

New Year’s Resolutions

Year 2016 Resolutions For Our Nation’s Police As a democratic police officer serving a free society, I resolve: 1. To … More

Why Trust in Police Has Been Eroded

The following article appeared on the Vox website December 10, 2015 and is a fair presentation of the situation in … More

Using Less-Than-Deadly Force: The Traumatic Pistol

American police must start to creatively think “outside the box.”  Let me say this and say it forcefully: The killing … More

Why Do American Police Kill So Many?

[The following article by Paul Hirschfield, Associate Professor of Sociology and Criminal Justice at Rurgers University was originally published in … More

Needed: A Blue Reformation

As a pundit[1] for the past two decades, I find myself finally realizing what I had hoped for when I … More

Dear Chief: An Old Veteran Talks to Young Leaders

Dear Chief, I am writing this letter because I care for you and what you do. I know you have a … More

The Platteville Prescription

This is my take-away from the Midwest Conference on 21st Century Policing at the University of Wisconsin in Platteville on … More

What We Learned At Platteville: Part 5 of 5

  DAVID COUPER: “People and Police Together: A Wrap-up and Way Forward.” Chief of Police, Madison, WI for over 20 years, … More