Homicide. No mother wants to read that on her firstborn’s death certificate. And there it was. My son Kristoffer’s death certificate read: Continue Reading
Ferguson
An Honest Look at Law Enforcement Training
by LT. William Boyd Kiphart II In the post-Ferguson age, post-Cleveland, post-Baltimore, post-North Charleston age, in the age of consent decrees Continue Reading
Ferguson to Minneapolis: What’s Going On with Law Enforcement?
This first appeared in The Havok Journal on May 29, 2020. As I stood in formation, day 1 of the police academy, I thought to myself: “Here we go Continue Reading
#OneReportingStandard: Hypocrisy in Reporting about Race
This first appeared in The Havok Journal on December 22, 2014. Five days before Christmas in New York, two police officers were executed by a Continue Reading
Blaming Cops for Doing Their Job is Just Idiodic
This first appeared in The Havok Journal on November 30, 2014. Taser or Gun? In today’s America, the last thing I would want to be is a cop. Sworn Continue Reading
What Is Justice?
We have watched since August as a suburb of St. Louis has portrayed itself as a community on the edge where police brutality is so commonplace that Continue Reading
Ferguson Follies: Circle of Race
Editor's Note: Race issues have been in the news a lot lately and while many media outlets are afraid to even touch the subject, we are not; what is Continue Reading