In an article for Police Chief magazine, he wrote, “It is the premise of some eminent theologians that man is inherently corrupt. If such is the case, there is an inherent tendency on the part of humankind to engage in improper courses of behavior that will include activities that have come to be labeled as criminal.” He spoke of the “melancholy” and “despair” implicit in this view. If humanity could not be improved, at least there was the nightstick. “Lacking the ability to remedy human imperfection, we must learn to live with it. The only way to safely live with it is to control it. Control,
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