Is It Too Much To Expect?

Is it too much to expect that police would develop less-than-lethal ways to take persons into custody who are threatening … More

Is Improving Police an Impossible Task?

In 1960, when I first pinned on a badge, I was a “college cop”—on … More

BOOK SUMMARY: Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Protest, Racism, Corruption and the Seven Steps Necessary to … More

My first book, How to Rate Your Local Police, was published by the Police Executive Research Forum in 1983. It was a … More

MANY YEARS AGO, I was a young police officer, just out of the academy. My partner and I, also a … More

The department that I headed for over 20 years is coming under attack regarding the shooting of an unarmed intoxicated … More

Just Because We Can, Should We? The Legal-Moral Balance of Policing An all too familiar story from one of our … More

Isn’t it about time that we quit killing people who are holding knives and fail to respond to police commands? … More