‘Left Of Bang’ Leadership

‘Left Of Bang’ Leadership

Law enforcement leadership is the most difficult leadership position in the world. While that may sound outrageous and self-serving, anyone actually leading in any capacity in the profession understands completely the difficulties not only inside the job but outside....
Lowering Standards Is Not A Recruiting Tip

Lowering Standards Is Not A Recruiting Tip

For the last three decades, what the Department of Justice has done, in the form of consent decrees, to local agencies is disgusting but that pales in comparison to our own leaders agreeing to play along with this scam. It’s hard to debate the rise in violent crime...
Stop Chasing Shiny Objects

Stop Chasing Shiny Objects

If there was one thing that I can confirm is true without a doubt in law enforcement, it is our obsession with cool toys. Don’t get me wrong. I’m all for the newest and brightest flashlight or the gadgets on a gun and even the “tacti-cool” videos but when it comes to...
50 Years of Tragedy

50 Years of Tragedy

For the last two decades, I have studied line of duty deaths very closely and typically pull a decade of tragedy from each individual state prior to teaching there. The Officer Down Memorial Page has, unfortunately been my second devotional of the day. Through that...
Spine Removal Surgery

Spine Removal Surgery

After 30 years of law enforcement experience including 26 in supervision and management, I’ve seen both the good and the bad this great profession has to offer. I’ve worked with some of the greatest human beings that God placed on this planet while at the same time...