What Happens When Our Guardrails Fail? In the past few weeks, we Americans have been given a rare window into … More
Tag: politics
The Bold-Faced Lie Behind the Raids
When less than 7% of those deported are violent offenders, the President’s “law and order” campaign isn’t about safety — … More
Speak Up! This Isn’t American Policing!
Picture: Masked federal immigration officers take the elevator at immigration court in Manhattan. David Dee Delgado/Reuters We Must Not Let … More
Police Must Rise to Meet the Moment
[The following article I authored appeared in “The Progressive” magazine on November 4, 2025.] Local police must observe, document, and … More
A Call to Police Chiefs and Sheriffs
We are living through a constitutional stress test and it’s your leadership test. Our oath was never to a political … 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
A Tragic, But Probable Scenario
When Badges Confront Each Other A fictional scenario about accountability, restraint, and the uneasy future of democratic policing It began … More
Who Will Stop This Outrage?
What Happens When Law and Decency Collapse? As a retired police leader, I am outraged that our local government and … More
Police Are Constitutional Officers—Guardians of Our Republic
After more than thirty years in policing and an equal time in ministry, I have come to believe that the … More
All This is Happening on Our Watch!
When Enforcers Break the Law I spent more than three decades wearing a badge and swearing an oath to protect … More
