Neighborhood Policing: Still An Idea to Come?

I ran across one of the first articles I wrote on the subject of community and neighborhood policing. I wrote … More

Are You an Organizational Insider or Outsider?

Insider or Outsider: Which One Are You? Over the past year or so I have been an avid reader … More

Improving Trust in Wisconsin

I am always looking for positive trends in police improvement. This week, I found it in my own state when … More

Working Upstream

Innovation and Working upstream Michelle Adams is a VP at Gordon Training International, which carries on the leadership work of … More

A City, Police, and a Treacherous River

A Tale of a City, Police, and a Treacherous River When I speak to groups about leadership and improvement methods … More

Police and the Mentally Ill: From Last Resort to First Resort?

Jim Chu, Vancouver chief of police and president of the Canadian association of police chiefs, recently told a unique gathering … More

Update on the POP Center

Steve Elbow of the Capital Times in Madison, Wisc. wrote a follow-up on what’s been happening with the recently de-funded Problem … More

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

Dreaming in Blue…

An old friend, Neil Heinen, got me thinking again about Madison, Wisc. — a city we both love dearly and with whom … More

Police Accountability: A New Way?

Here is a novel and very creative idea to approach the problem of bad policing which can cost a … More