Five Hundred posts! Hard to believe. It was in the fall of 2011, as I was finishing up the final … More
Tag: discourtesy
Trashing the POP Center
Feds Trash the Problem Oriented Policing Center: Another Example of Anti-Intellectualism (among other things…) One of the push-backs I occasionally receive from my … More
On Hiring a Chief of Police
One of the most important of public decisions any elected or appointed official will ever make will be this one. … More
Is Improving Police an Impossible Task?
In 1960, when I first pinned on a badge, I was a “college cop”—on … More
Summarizing “Arrested Development”
BOOK SUMMARY: Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Protest, Racism, Corruption and the Seven Steps Necessary to … More
The Four Obstacles
THE FOUR OBSTACLES WHICH HAVED TENDED TO ARREST OUR NATION’S POLICE [An excerpt from the preface of the book Arrested Development: … More
Officer Schoolcraft — Why He Matters
Officer Adrian Schoolcraft – Why He Matters and Why You Most Likely Won’t Hear About Him Again Three years ago, … More
Should Cops Be Compassionate?
This week, James E. Causey, a columnist with the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, wrote about an interview he had with a … More
“The Best of Our Knowledge” An Interview with Jim Fleming
As many of you know, I was Chief of the Madison, Wisconsin Police Department for more than twenty years. Though … More
“Show me your papers!”
“Show me your papers!” Why ordering our nation’s police to do immigration enforcement is a bad idea. Police as immigration … More
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 