Archive for September 2016
Engaging Communities One Step at a Time: Policing’s Tradition of Foot Patrol as an Innovative Community Engagement Strategy
Learning Critical Lessons from 9/11, Then and Today
On Saturday (September 10th), I received an email from Jim Bueermann, my boss at the National Policing Institute. The email’s subject line was succinct: “Is that you in this photo from 9/11?” I opened the email and clicked on the link Jim had provided; I watched the video, and there I was, kneeling next to…
Read MoreBig Time Trouble Won’t Only Happen in Big Cities
If the past year has shown us anything, it’s that crime and terror on a major scale can happen anywhere, not just in big cities like New York or Washington D.C. There were probably a lot of Americans who had never heard of Kalamazoo, Michigan, before an Uber driver went on a killing spree in…
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