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Jennifer Tejada officially took the reigns as Emeryville Chief of Police on September 16th after sixteen year Chief Ken James retired last June. Tejada was chosen among a deep pool of applicants and hired to oversee the force of 38 sworn police officers...

What’s going on? Not All Wrong – But Not All Right Crisis happens. Volatility, Uncertainty, Complexity and Ambiguity (VUCA), coined at the Army War College in the early 1990’s (Mack, et. al., 2015), is a sobering new reality for police officers and...

One Monday morning last fall, at Spring Valley High School in Columbia, South Carolina, a 16-year-old girl refused to hand over her cellphone to her algebra teacher. After multiple requests, the teacher called an administrator, who eventually summoned...

Matthew Cherry was twenty-one years old when he found himself in a police interrogation room. At the time, he had the psychological maturity of a bright 12-year-old boy.  Thus it isn’t surprising that Matthew was much too trusting when Beaumont Police...

“Everyone must be committed in the matter of peace, to do everything that they can . . . .Peace is the language we must speak.” — Pope Francis INTRODUCTION This section is about peace – a most fundamental asset to community building, to personal growth...