Tag: travis yates

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Several years ago I agreed to participate in a fundraising event. The idea sounded fun but there was no joy when I jumped in a cold lake wearing my full ...

“This is the foundation for everything. Under Courageous Leadership there are several key principles that are vital to making leadership courageous.  The foundation of them all is a principle called ...

By now you have no doubt heard about the horrific death of Tyre Nichols and you have likely watched the video of the incident. In light of the recent events ...

Law enforcement has suffered another case of a police chief forsaking officers, giving in to public opinion (aka “outrage”), and failing to lead courageously. It could have been a moment ...

Trenton, New Jersey - A Trenton Police officer has been indicted on a criminal charge for pepper-spraying a suspect that was resisting arrest. Officers had been called to the residence ...

While multiple media outlets report on shootings involving police officers and several databases exist to track officer involved shootings, you'd be hard pressed to find them discussing the rise in ...