# police chief (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 3 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover police chief. Page: Feed: --- ## [Free Dr. Fauci](https://pamelapriceunfiltered.substack.com/p/free-dr-fauci) _2026-08-18 · Pamela Price · Pamela Price Unfiltered_ The political persecution of an 85-year-old American icon who saved millions of lives in a worldwide pandemic speaks volumes of how low we can go ## [The Dignity of Small Things](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/the-dignity-of-small-things) _2026-08-15 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ An essay about a fountain pen, a jade ring, and the never-forgotten echoes of those we loved and lost. [Listen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/690e6539df5b33685f810083/t/6a80cf307d09480a0c899817/1786826548880/The+Dignity+of+Small+Things.mp3) ## [AIPAC Invades Alameda County](https://pamelapriceunfiltered.substack.com/p/aipac-invades-alameda-county) _2026-08-11 · Pamela Price · Pamela Price Unfiltered_ The American Israel Public Affairs Committee is pouring millions into a Bay Area special election to fill Eric Swalwell's congressional seat ## [The Resurrected Eye](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/channeling-george-inness-and-arthur-rackham-into-my-street-photography) _2026-08-09 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ A retired police chief rediscovers his instinct for noticing through street photography, transforming an old survival skill into a new way of seeing art, empathy, and everyday human stories. [Listen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/690e6539df5b33685f810083/t/6a77eecc86bbd14b91acbbc6/1786244816054/The+Resurrected+Eye.mp3) ## [Maurice Monk: Miscarriage of Justice](https://pamelapriceunfiltered.substack.com/p/maurice-monk-miscarriage-of-justice) _2026-08-04 · Pamela Price · Pamela Price Unfiltered_ Political corruption in plain sight: pay-to-play between the Alameda County Sheriff and District Attorney Ursula Jones Dickson ## [What It’s Like to Be a Police Chief at a Landscape Painting Workshop](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/what-its-like-to-be-a-police-chief-at-a-landscape-painting-workshop) _2026-08-01 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ Afraid to fly and convinced he didn't belong, a police chief attends a renowned landscape painting workshop and learns an unexpected lesson about creativity, courage, and finding strength as an outsider. [Listen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/690e6539df5b33685f810083/t/6a6e2ba16b329c1838faf494/1785605054083/What+It_s+Like+to+Be+a+Police+Chief+at+a+Landscape+Painting+Workshop.mp3) ## [July 2026: Differential treatment, again](https://stopwatchuk.substack.com/p/july-2026-differential-treatment) _2026-07-31 · StopWatch UK · StopWatch UK newsletter_ Excessive force used on another Black boy in London, Norfolk police caught on camera making racist (plus transphobic and other offensive) remarks, but ethnic disproportionality remains a mystery ## [Alameda County Congressman Confronts Israeli Apartheid](https://pamelapriceunfiltered.substack.com/p/alameda-county-congressman-confronts) _2026-07-28 · Pamela Price · Pamela Price Unfiltered_ Congressman Ro Khanna described the incident as “the most arrogant and humiliating treatment of American citizens I have endured.” ## [The Bears Are Winning](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/rampaging-bots-or-burglar-bears) _2026-07-26 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ An essay exploring rogue AI, Lake Tahoe's burglar bears, and the enduring importance of creativity, resilience, and human agency. [Listen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/690e6539df5b33685f810083/t/6a65592f29c24e68c2d712b6/1785026866579/The+Bears+Are+Winning.mp3) ## [Oakland Police Chief James Beere: Last Man Standing, Part 2](https://pamelapriceunfiltered.substack.com/p/oakland-police-chief-james-beere) _2026-07-21 · Pamela Price · Pamela Price Unfiltered_ OPD has some unfinished business that may or may not impact what happens next in James Beere’s tenure as Oakland's new Police Chief ## [8.1% APY Plus Free Stock (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/ZamGdAGf0JgF) _2026-07-21 · **Sponsored**_ Claim 8.1% APY and up to $1,030 in SK hynix and Nvidia stock. ## [The Dreams We Leave Behind Sometimes Wait for Us](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/the-dreams-we-leave-behind-sometimes-wait-for-us) _2026-07-19 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ An essay about literary writing, editorial cartooning, Pat Oliphant, and how the dreams we leave behind sometimes wait for our return. [Listen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/690e6539df5b33685f810083/t/6a5c790aa7866514869fbfeb/1784445198458/The+Dreams+We+Leave+Behind+Sometimes+Wait+for+US.mp3) ## [New Oakland Police Chief James Beere: the Last Man Standing](https://pamelapriceunfiltered.substack.com/p/new-oakland-police-chief-james-beard) _2026-07-14 · Pamela Price · Pamela Price Unfiltered_ New Oakland Police Chief James Beere emerges at the end of Oakland’s 10-year saga of police scandals and police chiefs: the last man standing ## [The Beautiful Trap of an Immaculate Life](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/the-beautiful-trap-of-an-immaculate-life) _2026-07-11 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ What happens after you finally arrive? A reflective essay on retirement, perfection, aging, and the quiet anxiety of achieving the life you always wanted. [Listen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/690e6539df5b33685f810083/t/6a52e6e1f8420846dec73bfa/1783817957365/The+Beautiful+Trap+of+an+Immaculate+LIfe.mp3) ## [The Most Ambivalent Anniversary Ever](https://pamelapriceunfiltered.substack.com/p/the-most-ambivalent-anniversary-ever) _2026-07-08 · Pamela Price · Pamela Price Unfiltered_ The celebration of America’s 250th anniversary in 2026 seems to mock the challenges facing our communities and our world today ## [The Long Way Home](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/the-long-way-home) _2026-07-04 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ From years spent working Fourth of July parades as a police chief to celebrating with family in retirement, this personal essay reflects on patriotism, service, freedom, and the memories that matter most. [Listen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/690e6539df5b33685f810083/t/6a493d6688e4002abf5a5696/1783184744714/The+Long+Way+Home.mp3) ## [America’s Gun Culture is Eating Us Alive](https://pamelapriceunfiltered.substack.com/p/americas-gun-culture-is-eating-us) _2026-07-01 · Pamela Price · Pamela Price Unfiltered_ A public health framework has the greatest chance of changing behavior and cultural acceptance of death by gun in America ## [June 2026: Differential treatment](https://stopwatchuk.substack.com/p/june-2026-differential-treatment) _2026-06-30 · StopWatch UK · StopWatch UK newsletter_ The commentariat and political classes lay the blame for police response to fatal stabbing in the wrong places, overlooking the disturbing phenomenon of routine handcuffing in the process ## [The Quiet Choreography of Us](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/the-quiet-choreography-of-us) _2026-06-27 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ Sometimes the most beautiful things in life are unseen. A stranger's kindness. A familiar smile. A welcoming gesture that asks nothing in return. Through a series of black-and-white street photographs, this essay reflects on the quiet acts of grace that bind us together and reminds us that no one should be left sitting alone at life's grand ballroom. [Listen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/690e6539df5b33685f810083/t/6a3ff6d8f60bc831edfe4a15/1782576859284/TheChoreographyofUS.mp3) ## [Justice Is Not Vengeance](https://pamelapriceunfiltered.substack.com/p/justice-is-not-vengeance) _2026-06-23 · Pamela Price · Pamela Price Unfiltered_ Finding the thin line between justice and vengeance and recognizing when vengeance subverts justice and fails our community ## [Every Leaving Is a Loss and a Possibility](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/every-leaving-is-a-loss-and-a-possibility) _2026-06-20 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ One summer afternoon, my father took me to a cemetery and shared a lesson I wouldn't fully understand until years later. Through memories of family, loss, and the example of a good man, this essay reflects on the ways grief changes us. And how every leaving carries the possibility of becoming someone new. [Listen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/690e6539df5b33685f810083/t/6a373b04090f0879da72e651/1782004488187/New+Recording.m4a) ## [Licensed Dispensaries, Pay with Crypto (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/MVMpHbtFnpWW) _2026-06-20 · **Sponsored**_ Search verified licensed dispensaries and pay with Bitcoin, Lightning, or stablecoins. ## [The Most Progressive County in the US Moves to the Right](https://pamelapriceunfiltered.substack.com/p/the-most-progressive-county-in-the) _2026-06-16 · Pamela Price · Pamela Price Unfiltered_ A choice about money, power and prestige, and what kind of justice our children can expect to receive for decades to come ## [You Can’t Perfume a Text Message](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/you-cant-perfume-a-text-message) _2026-06-14 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ In this age of digital screens and technological modernity, there are still vestiges of the old world. Alabaster sculptors and book lovers and people writing with fountain pens. A dwindling community holding onto the old ways. [Listen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/690e6539df5b33685f810083/t/6a2dfc2bfc6e5235f3bc1cb7/1781398580005/New+Recording+2.m4a) ## [Slowing Down to Find the Person We Forgot](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/slowing-down-to-find-the-person-we-forgot) _2026-06-06 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ An essay about personal reinvention, Carthusian monks, the movie “Pig,” and the importance of authenticity over shallow performance. [Listen](https://static1.squarespace.com/static/690e6539df5b33685f810083/t/6a246896d8c9092abd63aa13/1780770986650/New+Recording.m4a) ## [An Elegy for a Lost Life](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/an-elegy-for-a-lost-life) _2026-06-04 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ Memories of our family’s chickens, the soul’s freedom, Mark Helprin’s novel “Elegy in Blue,” leaving Substack, childhood birthdays, and an elegy for a lost life. ## [To Pierce the Veil of Selfish Consciousness](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/to-pierce-the-veil-of-selfish-consciousness) _2026-06-04 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ A bickering couple in San Francisco, pretending to be someone else at a cartoonist convention, Iris Murdoch on our “flat, relentless egos,” Pico Iyer on monastic retreats, and the peace of becoming yourself. ## [Letters of Hope](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/letters-of-hope) _2026-06-04 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ A short story about residents of a small town receiving mysterious yet uplifting letters, but then they stop. The story originally appeared in John Patrick Weiss’s 2024 book of short stories, “The Morning Fox.” ## [The Place Where the Light Enters You](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/the-place-where-the-light-enters-you) _2026-06-04 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ An essay about my abscessed tooth, my old dog’s dental surgery, pain and the wisdom of C. S. Lewis, Kent Haruf’s blessed McPheron brothers, the poet Rumi on pain, the suffering of Voltaire’s Candide, and a healing text from an old friend. ## [She Was Beautiful](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/she-was-beautiful) _2026-06-04 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ Elderly women, Akiko Busch and Virginia Woolf on the invisibility of older women, and why older women glow in the dark. ## [The Ones Worth Suffering For](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/the-ones-worth-suffering-for) _2026-06-04 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ I drove to an old church in the town where I grew up, to visit an old friend whose mind was slipping into the fog of memory loss. And while he remembered me, he mostly repeated old memories. And on the drive home the thought, if we didn’t care, there’d be no sting of loss. ## [A Way of Keeping Yourself Alive](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/a-way-of-keeping-yourself-alive) _2026-06-04 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ A dying grandmother, a train ride in the park, the importance of caring to stay alive inside, and how the time you give to others is never wasted. ## [Finnish Seedboxes — Up to 20Gbps (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/YMYecJX5bXxc) _2026-06-04 · **Sponsored**_ Private Finnish seedboxes with 1–20Gbps speeds, RAID storage and 14‑day refund ## [A Chest Full of Stacked Asteroids](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/a-chest-full-of-stacked-asteroids) _2026-06-04 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ A short story about a retired English teacher who lost her husband, family choices, a student who left the Iowa Writer’s Workshop, and how despite the ups and downs of relationships, love remains. ## [What Doesn’t Last Is More Important Than You Think](https://www.johnpatrickweiss.com/journal/what-doesnt-last-is-more-important-than-you-think) _2026-06-04 · John Patrick Weiss · Journal - John Patrick Weiss_ Ludwig Wittgenstein, David Jones, Simone Weil, and the practice of retreat. But not because the world has nothing to offer, but to learn how to get out of your own way. ## [May 2026: Independent of scrutiny](https://stopwatchuk.substack.com/p/may-2026-independent-of-scrutiny) _2026-05-31 · StopWatch UK · StopWatch UK newsletter_ New criminal justice legislation gives law enforcement ever greater discretion to do whatever they want to combat crime. Or can, it depends on your point of view ## [April 2026: The elephant in the (court)room](https://stopwatchuk.substack.com/p/april-2026-the-elephant-in-the-courtroom) _2026-04-30 · StopWatch UK · StopWatch UK newsletter_ As the watchful eye of facial recognition cameras extends its reach across England and Wales, racialised communities are at heightened risk of suffering from its flaws ## [March 2026: From vigils to Project Vigilant](https://stopwatchuk.substack.com/p/march-2026-from-vigils-to-project) _2026-03-31 · StopWatch UK newsletter_ Every policy response to the all-too common tragedy risks making a mockery of the safety of women and girls, 5 years on from the murder of Sarah Everard ## [February 2026: Just as much carrot as stick](https://stopwatchuk.substack.com/p/february-2026-just-as-much-carrot) _2026-02-28 · StopWatch UK newsletter_ Government takes measured stance on youth violence prevention; police chiefs admit racial bias in AI-enabled surveillance tech... press on with adoption anyway ## [January 2026: New year, new reforms?](https://stopwatchuk.substack.com/p/january-2026-new-year-new-reforms) _2026-01-31 · StopWatch UK newsletter_ Will the proposed shakeup of the current policing model raise standards of accountability and transparency within the institution? Will it make the police less racist or sexist? Will it ever happen? ## [December 2025: The struggle for greater scrutiny](https://stopwatchuk.substack.com/p/december-2025-the-struggle-for-greater) _2025-12-31 · StopWatch UK · StopWatch UK newsletter_ Executive director Habib Kadiri reflects on developments in policing over the past year ## [November 2025: Abolition is possible... for PCCs](https://stopwatchuk.substack.com/p/november-2025-abolition-is-possible) _2025-11-30 · StopWatch UK newsletter_ Role introduced to bring greater democratic accountability to policing ditched, while a tragic violent incident brings yet more talk of ramping up stop and search ## [October 2025: Haunted by the ghosts of racists past](https://stopwatchuk.substack.com/p/october-2025-haunted-by-the-ghosts) _2025-10-31 · StopWatch UK newsletter_ Police ramp up racism for Black History Month, also get the green light to change the record on leniency granted for killing civilians