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David Couper

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Top Posts on “Improving Police” (2011 – 2016)
1.     Why Police Matter
2.     Making Choices: The Moral Aspects of Policing
3.     Principles of Leadership
4.     How a Traffic Offense Can Be a Ticket to Prison
5.     Hazing and Bullying in the Police Academy
6.     The Seven Necessary Steps — Step 1: Not Just For Police!
7.     How Should Police Present Themselves?
8.     The Four Obstacles
9.     The Seven Improvement Steps
10.  Can and Should Police Investigate Themselves?
11.  On Hiring a Chief of Police
12.  ON THIS WE STAND: Qualities of Police in a Free and Democratic Society
13.  “Blue Courage” — Coming to a Police Station Near You?
14.  A Problem in Madison
15.  Thinking Outside the (Blue) Box
16.  An Unusual Experience of Police Reform: The Republic of Georgia
17.  Leadership and Motivation
18.  Learning From #TonyRobinson
19.  Setting the Tone, Casting a Vision
20.  What About CompStat and Crime Reduction?

Published by David Couper

I served over 20 years as the chief of police in Madison (WI), four years as chief of the Burnsville (MN) Police Department, and before that as a police officer in Edina (MN) and the City of Minneapolis. I hold graduate degrees from the University of Minnesota and Edgewood College in Madison. I have written many articles over my years as a police leader. After retiring from the police department, I answered a call to ministry, attended seminary, and was ordained as a priest in the Episcopal Church. After almost 30 years serving in and leading two Episcopal Churches in the Diocese of Milwaukee, I am "sort-of" in the process of retirement. Life is good.

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