In three decades of wearing the badge of a city cop, training the next generation, and leading police, I have … More
Tag: Minneapolis
The Thin Blue Line in the Crossfire: Who Do We Truly Serve?
The streets of Minneapolis and their surrounding suburbs have become a theater of chaos. As a retired police chief with … More
ICE: Get Out of Our Cities!
The Death of a Poet and the Collapse of the Professional Police Model I have spent more than 30 years … More
Fear Is Not Public Safety
AP Photo/Bruce Kluckhohn Why Chief O’Hara’s Message Matters Now Minneapolis Police Chief Brian O’Hara recently published an op-ed titled “Fear Undermines … More
A New Kind of Courage: Why Police Must Confront Federal Overreach.
Something extraordinary just happened in Minneapolis — something we have not seen from a major-city police chief in years. Chief … More
Turbulent History of the Politicized Minneapolis PD
Paradox: Echoes of Reform and the Minneapolis Police “Historian Yohuru Williams explores the history of reforming the Minneapolis Police and … More
On State of Policing 5 Years After the Death of George Floyd
The following is a deep discussion and analysis into what has been happening in the Twin Cities (Minneapolis and /St. … More
Five Years After George Floyd
Governing Magazine, in a lengthy article, does a great job this month of reviewing the state of policing in America … More
A Reader Responds to “The Fall of Minneapolis”
[Note: I greatly enjoy getting comments from readers. Somehow, they are few and far between. Yet my November 18th blog, … More
It’s Time to Get Unstuck!
“It’s not that the art of policing has deteriorated or regressed; no, it has been stuck and not moved forward … More
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 