Why Improve police? They Don’t Bother me!

Improve our police? Ho-hum. Why does it feel like I am paddling upstream when I talk about the great benefits … More

A Note From a Cop in the Future

I wrote the following piece in 1990. It was published that year in the American Journal of Policing. … More

No longer “Sleepless in Seattle,”the city has woken up. In an historic settlement, a federal judge recently approved a … More

As many of you know, I was Chief of the Madison, Wisconsin Police Department for more than twenty years. Though … More

Dr. Catherine Norman from the US Center for Naval Analysis released her latest research from Helmand Province in Afghanistan. Entitled … More

Private Police? Has It Come to That? In the June 20, 2012 issue of the Guardian, David Taylor-Smith, the head of … More

What is CompStat and why is it causing problems for police? CompStat (short for COMPuter STATistics or COMParative STATistics) is: … More

One of the things I strongly emphasize in my book is that police need to practice courtesy “to a fault.” … More

Yes, thanks to you! I wrote “Arrested Development” because I thought there were some things in the police field that … More

In early April, I was interviewed on WISC-TV’s “Live at Five.” It is a short interview (4 min.) about what … More