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Redefining Command Leadership: Building Adaptive Culture and Organizational Integrity from the Inside Out
This article emphasizes that organizational leaders, especially in policing, must prioritize fair and humane internal processes, intentional culture-building, and long-term stewardship to build trust and effectively evolve their agencies. Without these efforts, departments risk disengagement and fractured trust both within and with the public.
Policing’s Hero Mentality
What if policing wasn't the first response – but the final one? In The Hero Mentality, Captain Craig Solgat, a FPI Fellow, proposes a bold, future-focused vision of policing where police are deployed not by default, but with deliberate purpose.
Why Police Academy Directors should focus on Five Simple Questions?
Today, we need cops whose core competencies are consistent with organizational values and contemporary views of the true purpose of policing. The formal training of these officers begins in police academies. There are five basic questions each academy director should be asking themselves as they reflect on the nature of the training they are providing.
Police Technologist: the position every police agency needs but almost none have
The use of technology by the police is clearly anchored to the culture of policing. Unfortunately, what is not part of the policing culture is the role of “Police Technologist.” This position is envisioned as the keeper of policing’s ethical commitment to do the right thing while protecting the community.