Sanctity of Life: Linchpin of Policing a Democracy

Our nation’s founding document does not begin its famous list with liberty. It begins with life. “Life, liberty, and the … More

Policing a Free Society: A Hard Task Worth Doing — 在自由社会维护治安：艰难却必要的使命

Hello, China, Can I Be of Help? — 你好，中国，我能为你提供帮助吗？ Recently, this blogsite saw an unexpected surge in readers from China … More

I am getting tired. I think I have said here all that needs to be said. With masked ICE agents … More

It’s Time to Stand Up for Justice — Before It’s Too Late I’ve written before about the political dismantling of … More

[Shortly after Barack Obama was elected as the 44th President of the United States, I wrote him the following letter. … More

Around 1829, Sir Robert Peel and others put together a set of policing principles for the London Metropolitan Police — … More

The poet Robert Frost once wrote this about making choices: Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry … More

QUALITIES OF POLICE IN A FREE AND DEMOCRATIC SOCIETY: A PETITION We are two former chiefs of police who are … More

Police Versus Physicians This might not be a fair comparison, but stay with me… There are about 900,000 active physicians … More

The qualities we expect our police officers to hold and practice should also pertain to those whose job is to … More