“The goal for police officers is to voluntarily give permission to one another to intervene when a colleague’s career or … More
Tag: Minneapolis
Police Like a Security Guard?
There is, unfortunately, a big difference between police services in a gated community and those delivered in most of our … More
Improving Policing Through Peer Intervention
“In three years we sent a lot of vicious predators and career criminals to prison without a single complaint of … More
Lost and Found: A Young Officer’s Notebook (1962)
The other day I ran across one of my notebooks from my early days in policing. I don’t know where … More
Insuring Our Police
The following is a proposal from the Minneapolis-based Committee for Professional Policing. It bears strong consideration as we move forward … More
In the Past, College Cops Led Reform
A Bit of Police History The following is what a number of police officers from the Minneapolis-St. Paul area accomplished … More
Looking back — Moving forward!
This was a video put together by Liz Cullin of WCCO-TV (a CBS affiliate) in the Minneapolis-St. Paul area after … More
Critic in the Ranks: When I Got Ordered into the Chief’s Office
I wrote the following op-ed in the Minneapolis Tribune in 1967 when I served as a police officer in Minneapolis. … More
Speaking Out!
There’s an old saying, “What goes around comes around.” Fifty years ago, our nation was engaged in a great struggle … More
“You’ve Come a Long Way, Baby!”
During the heart of the feminist movement, in 1968, a cigarette manufacturer used the slogan, “You’ve come a long way, baby!” They were … More
