Once More For Community Oriented Policing

John Buntin writes in last week’s New York Times Magazine how the Los Angeles Police Department used a good dose … More

A Question for Today’s Chief of Police: Whom Do You Serve?

A Question for Today’s Chiefs of Police: Whom Do You Serve? Who should police chiefs serve? Their organization or the … More

Training matters. In fact, it’s a critical factor in improving our nation’s police. Maybe I can’t get police leaders in … More

After reading this recent article in New York Magazine (May 19, 2013) about the stop and frisk controversy in New … More

In 1960, when I first pinned on a badge, I was a “college cop”—on … More

SELECTING POLICE OFFICERS “My vision for police is that they can be fair, effective and humanitarian. They can protect our … More

BOOK SUMMARY: Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Protest, Racism, Corruption and the Seven Steps Necessary to … More

MAYBE FIFTY YEARS WASN’T ENOUGH. It’s been that long since the day a shiny badge was first pinned on my … More

Of course, the question of self-regulation is not only relevant to the police but applies to every institution of power … More

I first described “Seven Seeds for Policing” at the annual meeting of the Police Executive Research Forum in Washington, DC … More