Over the years, I have taught students as well as junior and senior police officers. There’s challenges there, too. Cops (and sometimes those learning to become cops) are a tough audience. That’s why identified this as an obstacle to police improvement in Arrested Development. Obstacle #1: Anti-Intellectualism The negative spirit of anti-intellectualism presents itself in […]

FEATURED BLOGGER David Couper Former Chief at Madison Police Department Madison, WI

Swatting is using technology to deceptively cause a heightened emergency response by law enforcement that may elicit the response of a Special Weapons and Tactics team (SWAT). The latest high profile instance of Swatting that ended tragically in Wichita, Kansas, brought this closer to home for me. The current chief of police in Wichita is […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Rick Mathwig Chief of Police Roseville Police Department, Minnesota

The Kansas City Missouri Police Department has secured funding to embed a social worker at all six of our patrol division stations. The Hall Family Foundation is providing $640,000, and the City of Kansas City is matching that with $470,000 to fund six social workers and a program coordinator for the next three years. The […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Richard C. Smith Chief of Police Kansas City Police Department, Missouri

I just had a conversation with Sgt Rick Leonard this morning on this very issue. He was telling me his concerns about the reports of unemployment insurance identity fraud cases that are rampant right now. They will shortly be followed by the tax return fraud cases. He is concerned because we have no way to […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Doreen Olko Director of Public Safety Auburn Hills Department of Public Safety, Michigan

It is Sunday January 14th, 2018, the FBI National Academy Session #271 has completed its first official week. This week we all went through orientation, bought our uniforms, found our gym lockers and began all of classes. My schedule is as follows: Fitness in Law Enforcement (physical training) Managing Organizational Change and Development Contemporary Issues […]

FEATURED BLOGGER David Westrick Chief of Police Hollister Police Department, California

In the last few years, the City of Arcadia has seen an increase in local homeless and mental health population.  Calls for service for police officers on a daily basis related to subjects who are homeless or suffer from a mental illness range from suspicious subjects loitering, sleeping to the front of a business or […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Arcadia Police Department Arcadia, California

When I arrived in Wichita I committed to increasing transparency and changed practices such as notifying the public as soon as possible when a police officer has been arrested. Recently, I came across this blog I wrote when I was a chief in Minnesota. It references a serious officer misconduct case from 2012. Today, I feel […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Gordon Ramsay Chief of Police Wichita Police Department, Kansas

On this date 45 years ago, then-Mayor Paul Redpath christened the first Eden Prairie squad car in front of his home. He poured champagne over the squad’s front bumper and Officer Bruce Wojack called it into service. That event marked the beginning of the Eden Prairie Police Department. Prior to 1973 the Hennepin County Sheriff’s […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Eden Prairie Police Department Eden Prairie, Minnesota

While you and your family celebrate the holidays together at home, we are patrolling your neighborhoods – checking your property, your yard, your streets, looking for anything or anyone out of place. We are the ones that venture into the dark, not knowing what if anything awaits us, often to protect many of you we […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Scott Rose Sheriff Dodge County Sheriff's Office, Minnesota

In the last few weeks, we have seen a surge of robberies involving people who thought they were meeting up to purchase something from an online marketplace. As these transactions are likely to increase with the holidays, I urge everyone to please exercise caution. Several victims went to a purported home address of someone they […]

FEATURED BLOGGER Richard C. Smith Chief of Police Kansas City Police Department, Missouri