Featured in the Daily Post Athenian Newspaper As a young college student, I was tasked with researching something related to the civil...

This article was featured in the February 2021 Issue of American Police Beat Magazine. “We have to do more with less.” I still remember...

Recently, I turned 41. The most obvious thing for most people to reflect on would be how rotten of a time the first year of their 40’s...

PUBLISHED IN AMERICAN POLICE BEAT MAGAZINE “Defund the Police”. The headlines are chock full of announcements that various municipalities...

*This article was featured on Policeone.com. Of all the wrecks I had as a young deputy, the most noteworthy (or at least one of my top...

This article was featured in the November 2020 edition of American Police Beat Magazine. The last decade has been a wild ride for the law...

*This article was featured in the July/ September issue of the FBINAA "Associate" Magazine. To see it there, click HERE. To say that the...

As a new police chief, one of the most surprising (and frustrating) things that I learned was just how limited I was in my ability to...

*This article was featured on Policeone.com. You can access it here. I’m very quickly approaching the decade mark of my tenure as a...

I’ve always been somewhat naïve. I have fortunately outgrown some of this tendency as I’ve gotten older, steadily replacing my childish...

During the first few weeks of the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic, our collective attention seemed focused on questions of immediate...

In the United States, government is generally built around the concept of cities and counties. Counties are the arm of the state and...

What's the difference between a city and a county?

Like every other person in the world, my life has been drastically altered by the current Coronavirus pandemic. It’s spring of 2020, and...

It's difficult to find an apt comparison for the situation we find ourselves in. Some politicians have used WWII, and this is probably a...

What's the difference between a sheriff and a police department?

After years of government service in the law enforcement sector, I’m well aware of the dangers of “conflict of interest”.  I couldn’t...