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How May We…Rebuild the Bridge Between The People and The Police?
"While police officers certainly have a responsibility to focus on 'enforcement,' they also should spend considerable time and energy on 'engagement'… transparent and authentic community engagement,"...
View ArticleThoughts on Policing a Free Society: Our Failure to Concern Ourselves...
..."Our failure to concern ourselves sufficiently with the ambiguity in the police function and with the other conflicting pressures brought to bear upon the police has substantially reduced the...
View ArticleThoughts on Policing a Free Society: Rethinking Widely Held Assumptions...
"In order to make the police function more workable ,to reduce the conflicting pressures on the police, and to assure that future investments in police improvement will bring greater return, we must go...
View ArticleThoughts on Policing a Free Society: Altering Public Expectations
“Policing is one of America’s most noble professions. The actions of any officer, in an instant, can impact an individual for life and even a community for generations. Given this realization, every...
View ArticleSound of Silence A Tribute to Policing and All Those Who Serve The Homeland
This video was posted up on my FB Page from a friend. The link comes back to Behind the Badge OC. Behind the Badge OC highlights news from a public-safety perspective.We cover crime and crime...
View ArticleWhat is the Mission and Intent of Policing a Free Society?
The fundamental objectives of policing (also referred to as the mission of the police or the core functions of policing) are the ultimate purposes for which police agencies have been created. Goldstein...
View ArticleKeeping the Peace
I am seriously troubled by what's going on currently in this country when it comes to the killing of police. I have been policing for 30 years and the current climate is the most negative I have...
View ArticlePolice Officer Discretion…and Focusing Our Efforts on Better Outcomes
“While improvements in policing have usually resulted from revelations of wrongdoing or the documentation of inadequacies, it does not follow that public dissatisfaction has always produced change....
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