What We Learned at Platteville: Part 4 of 5

“Police Use of Deadly Force: Legal, Moral and Minority Perspectives” Rev. Everett Mitchell: Graduate of Morehouse College with multiple academic … More

Top Posts Last Week

Top Five Posts (from last week)   Early-Bird Registration for Midwest Conference on 21st Century Policing Why Police Matter Principles … More

Improving Police Use of Deadly Force

The Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), of which I was an early member nearly 40 years ago  has issued a … More

Less-than-Lethal Police Weaponry

              I have argued in the past that police need to start encouraging the … More

Police & Community: Working Together

THE MIDWEST CONFERENCE ON 21ST CENTURY POLICING ENDING THE CRISIS –MOVING FORWARD TOGETHER! Date and location: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 7th at … More

Early-Bird Registration for Midwest Conference on 21st Century Policing

THE MIDWEST CONFERENCE ON 21ST CENTURY POLICING ENDING THE CRISIS –MOVING  FORWARD TOGETHER! Here’s the date and location: WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER … More

Another Chief Gets It!

The Final Word from the PERF Report on Re-engineering Training Police Chief Michael Chitwood of Daytona Beach is interviewed by … More

Using Force: A Reflection and Some Suggestions For Police

Early on in my police career I came to see that how one uses force – from verbal direction to … More

This Is What I Have Been Talking About!

Chief Andy Mills of the Eureka (CA) Police Department has made the statement I believe communities need to hear from … More

What Citizens Need to Hear From Their Police

  I have recently been asked by some police officers as to what community members would like to hear from … More