ICE: Get Out of Our Cities!

The Death of a Poet and the Collapse of the Professional Police Model I have spent more than 30 years … More

Policing a Free Society: A Hard Task Worth Doing — 在自由社会维护治安：艰难却必要的使命

Hello, China, Can I Be of Help? — 你好，中国，我能为你提供帮助吗？ Recently, this blogsite saw an unexpected surge in readers from China … More

Becoming a Learning Organization

During my 20+ years as Chief of Police in Madison, Wisconsin, I led a department that became nationally known for … More

We Are Becoming a Nation of Fear — And That Must Stop

ICE Agents in Philadelphia — Fox News Nothing alarms me more than the executive branch using cruelty as a political … More

Dreaming Blue

What do those of us who once felt strongly called to become a police officer and then serve their communities … More

Addictive Hyper-Vigilance in Policing

One of the things I have always recommended to my officers (and those considering policing as a career) is that … More

More On Cops and Crowds

Protecting American’s Constitutional Right to “Assemble and Petition” their Government. Aggressive policing escalates violence at protests, research shows. A former … More

We’re in a mess: what should we do?

I would imagine most community leaders, including police, are trying to sort out just what happened after May 25th, 2020, … More

Minnesota Steps Up

What the Minnesota Legislature Passed (If They Can Do It, Why Can’t You?) By Torey Van Oot Minneapolis Star-Tribune “The … More

Policing: A Black Cop’s Perspective

[Ed. Note: Major Hughes is from the generation that followed me after I retired in 1993. He began his career … More