One of the most difficult issues I face with attendees of The Courageous Leadership Seminar is the statement “I’m Only." Several years ago, former Milwaukee County Sheriff David Clarke was gracious to bring the training to his area and in...

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. Left...

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...

(Substack): I just returned from a fantastic week in Elkhart (IN) at the Breaching The Barricade Conference and I will be in Nevada, Texas, Florida and Washington in the next few months speaking at other conferences but there is one...

I have written and spoken extensively at how federal intervention of local law enforcement by consent decrees have destroyed both the law enforcement agency and the community they serve. This is not a simple opinion but grounded in three decades...

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...

I have discussed consent decrees and the damage they are doing to communities in detail here in recent months and while I need to move on, the danger they pose to communities cannot be overstated. With a 30 year track...

In Minnesota, it seems that the "defund and defame" police movement has finally hit a crescendo. There isn't another state that has gone after law enforcement in an aggressive manner like Minnesota. Their outrageous state issued "use of force" policy...

This article has been a tough one to consider and even a tougher one to write. As an author for Police One for a decade and then the Editor In Chief for Law Officer Magazine for several years, I have...

I have written and discussed the abject failure that Consent Decrees have had on American Law Enforcement and the communities they serve more times than you likely cared to see but the topic is much larger than simply government control...