Police reform.

• Author: Rylaarsdam, Katharine W.
• Position: WE HEAR YOU - Letter to the editor

I appreciated David Couper's commentary on policing ("A Police Chief's Call for Reform," June issue), but experienced a sense of frustration. For most of the past year, I have been promoting Peelian principles (the policing ethics developed by Sir Robert Peel) as the proper basis of all police work. With the exception of one city council member, nobody has responded positively, neither politicians nor the media. I am forced...