Looking Back to Look Forward
The Phoenix Police Department wants to better understand its past to make a brighter future.
January 10, 2019
The Phoenix Police Department wants to better understand its past to make a brighter future.
January 10, 2019
Several themes emerge as I look back on my own small piece of that history. They are things that I wish I understood better when I was younger on the job. They are also things that I hope those who come after me can find of some service as they continue the work that I am leaving behind.
June 22, 2018
There is much to consider before you decide to apply for a job as chief of police.
October 17, 2017
Now that Williams has achieved one of her greatest career goals by becoming chief of her hometown Phoenix PD, she has equally lofty goals for the department.
December 7, 2016
At the sound of Barksdale's commands, Kalahar spun the shotgun toward him and leveled it. As the man flinched, Barksdale's finger squeezed the trigger of his gun—repeatedly.
October 18, 2013
A force of 2,419 Detroit Police officers now provides law enforcement services to the shrinking city of just over 706,000 residents. Between 1990 and 2011, the city lost a third of its residents. Since 2003, the agency has lost a third of its officers.
October 10, 2013
You are a chief or sheriff. Get real and train with your officers. You should be one of the first enrolled in your defensive tactics and subject control training classes. Your attendance and participation will speak to all, and what it will say is this stuff is real and it's important.
October 3, 2013
Everyone has ideas on how to improve their workplace. Sometimes they're even good, workable ideas. You know how you would do things if you were the boss. Fortunately, you don't necessarily have to be the boss to bring your brainchild to reality. You just have to sell it effectively.
August 2, 2011
Much of what I learned in basic academy in the late 1960s is no longer good law. If I were still operating on the basis of 40-year-old understandings, I wouldn't be very effective.
November 1, 2008
Many police psychologists believe that if you don’t feel bad, something is wrong with you.
April 1, 2006
Sometimes the man or woman in charge shoulders the blame, even when not personally involved in an incident.
October 1, 2003
Politics, politically correct ideology, and the police. The "three Ps." How well do they work together?
April 1, 2002
This Old West town's small force juggles city and county duties.
December 1, 2001
In these days of the Columbine High School shootings and countless other similar tragedies involving youngsters, we often allow these violent acts to overshadow the good deeds that young people perform in communities across the nation, each and every day.
December 1, 2000
High-speed pursuits are the most dangerous of all police activities for innocent citizens, regardless of the circumstances! In my example it was a rural setting at 0300 hours on a straight road with no one else around, except for the other vehicle that became an unwitting rolling roadblock for my pursuit.
November 1, 1998
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