How Should Police Present Themselves?

THE MATTER OF HOW POLICE SHOULD LOOK AND ACT ARE IMPORTANT ISSUES FOR EVERY FREE SOCIETY TO CONSIDER. Since the Continue reading →

How Can Police “Connect?”

MADISON’S TOP COPS PONDER HOW TO BETTER CONNECT WITH US June 10, 2013 7:15 am  •  PAUL FANLUND | The Continue reading →

Let’s Hear It Once More About How To Train Police

Training matters. In fact, it’s a critical factor in improving our nation’s police. Maybe I can’t get police leaders in Continue reading →

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 Continue reading →

A Case Study on Policing

After reading this recent article in New York Magazine (May 19, 2013) about the stop and frisk controversy in New Continue reading →

A Tribute to Women Police

I recently ran across a talk I gave nearly 15 years ago. It was on the 25th Anniversary of hiring Continue reading →

Thinking about Boston

“As the fog of our perpetual ‘war on terror’ descended again after the Boston Marathon bombings, veteran police chief David Continue reading →

Is Improving Police an Impossible Task?

            In 1960,  when I first pinned on a badge, I was a “college cop”—on Continue reading →

Selecting Police

SELECTING POLICE OFFICERS “My vision for police is that they can be fair, effective and humanitarian. They can protect our Continue reading →

Summarizing “Arrested Development”

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