POLICE TRANSFORMATION: IT BEGINS WITH YOU!

POLICE TRANSFORMATION: IT BEGINS WITH YOU! PART 3 of 10 The narrative which follows is how I described the midpoint … More

POLICE TRANSFORMATION: Not Just One But Many!

POLICE TRANSFORMATON: Not Just One, But Many! PART 2 of 10 After Madison’s transformative steps in the early 1970s, I … More

POLICE TRANSFORMATION: Why Change?

POLICE TRANSFORMATION: WHY CHANGE? A Ten Part Series PART 1 of 10  A number of years ago, I was the … 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

Learning From Failure

     I love to read the Sunday edition of The New York Times. It takes me a whole week to … 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

The Greatest Factor in Improving Police

This month is women’s history month. What better time to talk about the important role women have played, and continue … More

Why Not Google-Hire Cops?

Tom Friedman is one of my favorite writers at The New York Times. In an editorial he wrote last week, he … More

Some Thoughts on Jailing Jailers

On old friend from my days in the criminal justice trenches of Madison, Wisconsin, served as county sheriff for a … More

The Twelve Leadership Principles: A Summary

THE TWELVE PRINCIPLES OF QUALITY LEADERSHIP SYSTEMS Improve SYSTEMS and examine processes before blaming people Have a CUSTOMER orientation and … More