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A Breath of Fresh Air I don’t know the chief in Eureka. I don’t know if Chief Andy Mills in … More

Is Police Reform a Myth?

Ta-Nehisi Coates again caught my attention and thinking in his article last June in The Atlantic, “The Case for Reparations.” Now … More

The development of uniformed, public police took place much more slowly in England than in the rest of Europe. Public … More

Five Hundred posts! Hard to believe. It was in the fall of 2011, as I was finishing up the final … More

Policing a Democracy is Community-Oriented Policing: Accept no substitutes! In the late 1980s and early 1990s, there was a major … More

Thinking About Police The above is a PowerPoint presentation of mine on “Thinking About Police.” Look at it and feel … More

One of my readers, criminal justice professor and author, Gary Cordner alerted me to a the following new blog by … More

I have developed a PowerPoint slide show of the public talks I have been giving about where our nation must … More

Chief Says Madison Not a Ferguson The above is a recent interview (Apr/3/2015) in which I talk a bit about … More

What is it that is missing in todays strained dialogue between blacks and police? Could it be empathy? (See Washington, … More