The three most pressing problems police currently face are restoring trust, implementing reform, and improving police officer safety and wellness. … More
Tag: problem solving
Policing is the Art of Solving Problems
If this is true, how are you doing? Well-informed, thinking, and effective police officers know about POP and how to … More
Where To From Here?
We are now over four years past Ferguson and the rate of police uses of deadly force continues to be … More
Problem-solving should not be new to policing, it’s been formally around since 1990 when Prof. Herman Goldstein published his … More
Learning From Medicine?
My wife is a nine-year cancer survivor. When she was diagnosed, her physicians gave her a survival rate of one … More
Police Improvement Ideas Are Hardly New
The Seven Seeds For Policing I first discussed the “Seven Seeds” at the annual PERF meeting in Washington, DC in … More
Upstream-Downstream: Familiar?
One of the interesting fables I used I used in teaching leadership over the years was “Upstream-Downstream,” by Don Ardell (1975). … More
Seven Seeds for Policing
I first described “Seven Seeds for Policing” at the annual meeting of the Police Executive Research Forum in Washington, DC … More
Improving Police: A Necessary Conversation 