“Hands up! Don’t Shoot!” The Need for Credible Independent Review of Police Force

Written on 6/8/2015      “Hands up! Don’t Shoot!” ultimately turned out to be a false narrative. However, before the dust had settled and the truth was ultimately revealed by a U.S. Department of Justice investigation months later, protesters had laid to waste the downtown business district of Ferguson, Missouri; several police officers and scores… Read More “Hands up! Don’t Shoot!” The Need for Credible Independent Review of Police Force

TSA – No Commitment = Incompetence

Written on 6/2/15 “We’re from the government and we’re here to help you.” The latest nail in our federal Department of Homeland Security’s Transportation Security Administration’s coffin is yesterday’s revelation by the DHS that TSA agents at dozens of our nation’s busiest airports failed to miss inert explosives and weapons concealed by undercover DHS “Red… Read More TSA – No Commitment = Incompetence

Remove the Incentive to Serve and You Get No Service

Written on 6/1/2015 The city administration is not committed to suppressing crime. Proactive policing, coupled with support of the community and the city administration to suppress crime is what is needed immediately to reduce felony crimes. The city needs to get off of the entitlement system: both federal and state. Entitled people living in government subsidized… Read More Remove the Incentive to Serve and You Get No Service

What’s missing in how to improve police-community relations?

Written on 5/27/2015 It’s amazing that no federal, state or municipal political leader; no police administrator; and certainly no media talking head has come forward to ask why only ONE side of the narrative of how police-community relationships should change. The clear theme that is evident in ALL of these police-involved citizen deaths is that… Read More What’s missing in how to improve police-community relations?

Cameras or Choices : The Issue that No One Wants To Address

Written on 5/3/2015 Currently, the nation appears to be a hot bed of dissension and demonstrations regarding recent incidents of alleged police misconduct, brutality, excessive force and wrongful death. If you listen to street activists, reactive politicians and the usually uninformed media, you will generally be led to believe that the police are the bad… Read More Cameras or Choices : The Issue that No One Wants To Address