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Poignant Moments of Protest
In Bulgaria, 2013, riot police and protesters share a cry together as students and other protesters converged on parliament due to poverty and corruption. The protests saw several injured. I have...
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Leadership Lessons You Still Need to Learn?
Are there some leadership lessons you still need to learn? Take a look at the following from Forbes Magazine. They are lessons we all should have learned (or be in the process of learning) about...
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Good Policing Today Begins with a Bachelor’s Degree
Good Policing Today Begins With a Baccalaureate Degree If we are going to get serious about improving our nation’s police we will have to (again) start seriously talking about the education of our...
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Stop and Frisk: It’s More About HOW It’s Done!
I suggest that the primary problem with the use of “stop and frisk” by police in many of our cities has more to do with how it is done rather than if it is done. The first “how” is that it must be...
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Becoming a Police Officer
Someone recently asked me what I would say to a person who wished to become a police officer; especially those things which would help prepare a person for police work. 1. Receive a broad,...
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What About CompStat and Crime Reduction?
Recently, Chief Mike Masterson of Boise wrote me about CompStat and lowering the crime rate: "In regards to the heralded CompStat I wonder how agencies like Houston, Boise and countless other...
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Chief, What Would You Do?
The following article depicts a new social trend. It should not surprise us the idea of “flash mobs” is now part of our culture. In the past, a flash mob can be gathered by social media — Hey, let’s...
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Tell Me This Didn’t Happen in America!
I am enclosing this article from Nicholas Kristof which was in the New York Times Sunday Review OpEd on January 25, 2014. THREE ENEMAS LATER, STILL NO DRUGS! “If you think that protests about...
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