Our nation’s founding document does not begin its famous list with liberty. It begins with life. “Life, liberty, and the … More
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User’s Guide to Police Performance
How to Rate Your Local Police: A User’s Guide for Civic Leaders, Governmental Officials, Concerned Citizens, and Police My earliest … More
My Case For Improving Our Nation’s Police
American Policing Doesn’t Have to Stay Arrested Part memoir, part Madison history, and part policy handbook, Arrested Development draws on my more … More
Model Use of Force Policy
Rethinking the Rules of Engagement: Moving Beyond Graham v. Connor The legal baseline for police use of force in the … More
The Fatal Flaw in Modern Police Reform
Why Graham Keeps American Police Stuck! Across the country, progressive municipal police departments pride themselves on progressive transformation. They invest … More
How Police in America Got Hijacked
From Guardians to Warriors: How 9/11 Changed American Policing — and Why It Hasn’t Stopped I took my first oath … More
Building an Effective Strategy and Coalition
IF EUROPE’S POLICE CAN, WHY CAN’T WE? A Systems-Thinking Case for Improving Police Use of Deadly Force [Executive Summary: Constitutional baselines … More
The Active Fight is Over. Moving to Reserve Duty
Active Reserve Duty I have fought a long, hard fight for nearly three-quarters of a century. It is now time … More
Your Bounden Duty: Seven Precepts for a Police Officer in a Free Society
Introduction When I was a young boy growing up in the Episcopal Church, I was given a small pamphlet called My … More
Community-Oriented Policing: A Conversation Still Worth Having
There are moments in reflecting back to the work I did in policing to remind me why it matters. My … More
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 