Tag: courageous leadership

One of the largest issues with law enforcement today is leadership and much of the problems the profession is facing stems from leaders not understanding what their mission is. The ...

In my article titled, “Lies Leaders Tell,” one of the issues I spoke about is the stance that cowardly leaders have taken on “no knock” warrants. Frankly, I had no ...

I have spoken and written numerous times about the stupidity of law enforcement leaders and organizations that moved the vascular neck restraint (VNR) to deadly force or ban it in ...

Today marks my 30th year in law enforcement. For anyone that has been here, they would likely agree that it is both a surreal and improbable feeling. While it feels ...

“For the love of money is the root of all sorts of evil” I heard this growing up a lot. From my parents, my teachers, my coaches on the sports ...

Last month I discussed the Louisville Metropolitan Police Department Consent Decree and the scam that the Department of Justice (DOJ) has been implementing on law enforcement agencies for the last ...

A few weeks ago, I wrote about a disturbing discovery that eleven national police organizations agreed to modify the national consensus policy on use of force to restrict vascular neck ...

Editors Note: This article originally appeared on SubStack: Courageous Leadership with Travis Yates   This week, the Department of Justice announced that they are imposing a consent decree on the ...

The attention span of people in society nowadays is approximately 8.25 seconds. Which means by the time you’re done reading this sentence chances are you’ve already decided if you want ...

I was told a few months ago by Paula over at For The Blue, that Madison Police Chief Mike Koval (ret.) was someone that I should meet. I had no ...