The Culture of Fitting In
The culture of an organization is a living and breathing organism. You cannot see it in the tangible sense but you can feel the gravitational pull when someone acts outside of the norm. We spend most of our time synchronizing our actions and emulating social cues so we don’t draw attention to ourselves. This is […]
Deep Thoughts about Motorcycles
I had a Honda CBR sport motorcycle back in 2003. I have a small streak of adventurism that I need to feed every once in awhile and a fast motorcycle seemed like a good way to satisfy that hunger. I sold that motorcycle two years later after responding to the scene of an fatal accident […]
Heavy Hearts in the Wake of Dallas
To the men and women of the Aurora Police Department, Our hearts are heavy today as we face the reality of losing 5 officers from Dallas. Although we don’t know them personally, they are our family. You know them because you are them. Like them, you run towards the gunfire to protect innocent lives. You defend […]
Embrace Warriorship
*A letter to the officers of the Aurora Police Department: I attended training in Bloomington-Normal this week put on by the Illinois Law-Enforcement Training and Standards Board Executive Institute. On the 2nd day of the conference, I sat on a Chief’s panel and was asked a question about police perception and if police actually need […]