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Who Actually Runs the Police Department? What Does the Charter Say?
In the early months of the pandemic, law enforcement officers around this country were told, in everything but writing, to stop being cops. The order did not come from their chiefs. It came from the politics above their chiefs, and the crime rates that followed told...
A Hiring Bonus Is a Press Release. A Longevity Step Is a Policy.
Just after the pandemic, my agency put up a five thousand dollar hiring bonus. The veterans read that flyer the way veterans read everything, carefully and personally. By the end of the week the hallway question was the same everywhere: where is ours? Nobody was...
You Can’t Hold Someone Accountable. You Can Only Make It Safe Enough for Them to Choose It.
I once took over a unit that was slipping, and I tightened everything. More check-ins, more reporting, more eyes on the numbers, a standard I could measure against, and a way to track it daily. I called it accountability, and for a few weeks it looked like it was...