by Charles Cameron | Aug 16, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — easily the clearest and most powerful critique of recent events in Ferguson comes from KD Atherton and friends ] . Kelsey Atherton has Storified a fine compilation of tweets comparing Ferguson police, their weaponry, posture and tactcis,...
by Charles Cameron | Aug 15, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — the militarization of law enforcement in the US and around the globe ] . This double image is taken from a Foreign Policy slideshow published yesterday titled The Ferguson Spring and subtitled “Can you tell the difference between the...
by zen | Jun 16, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Adaptive Leadership Handbook: :Law Enforcement & Security by Fred Leland & Don Vandergriff The Adaptive Leadership Handbook is an unusual book. It is a work about thinking for men and women of action. It is an...
by Charles Cameron | Apr 21, 2014 | Monitor
[ by Charles Cameron — in hope that improved mutual understanding across a range of conflict situations will provide some viable alternatives to needlessly violent solutions ] . ** Malcolm Gladwell wrote an article published in the New Yorker at the end of last...
by zen | Jan 7, 2014 | Monitor
[by Mark Safranski, a.k.a. “zen”] Yale organizational behaviorist Rodrigo Canales has an interesting talk on the Narco-insurgency in Mexico ( which he correctly sees as having been as lethal as Syria’s civil war). While this won’t be...