Reimagine!
Photo by Kelly on Pexels.com [Note: As I have strongly written in the past, we the people need to REIMAGINE policing. The murder of George Floyd was a missed opportunity to do just that. I have even...
View ArticleThe Fall of Minneapolis
Protesters raise their fists in defiance outside a burning fast food restaurant near the Minneapolis Police Department 3rd Precinct, Friday, May 29, 2020, in Minneapolis. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)...
View ArticleWhy Honest Cops Matter
[Note: Integrity matters — and matters greatly in policing. We all know that the policing function is effective and much safer when most community members view their police officers as honest,...
View ArticleDon’t Forget Your Calling!
Officer Lawrence DiPrimo, NYPD “To Protect and Serve…” Never forget that police have the opportunity to do good — to make bad things to begin to go right and to help people in distress. That’s what it...
View ArticleExperimentation: What’s Lacking in Policing
[The excerpted article below comes from a November 28, 2923 story in the New York Times by Natasha Frost, reporting from Auckland, New Zealand.] Maori Wardens, a group of Indigenous volunteers,...
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