The Purpose of Police:
Protect the Vulnerable from Harm
Why The Curve
The profession of policing has an amazing opportunity to leverage the same ideas as the world’s most forward thinking organizations.
Military, healthcare, corporations and entrepreneurial ventures are all experimenting with and embracing new ideas about leadership and culture to meet today’s challenges.
The Curve exists to bring the best ideas from outside the profession in order to help advance the profession for the modern times.
The profession of policing must adapt and advance to meet the challenges of a modern world.
Our
Mission
The Curve exists to give forward-thinking leaders in policing the most current and creative ideas about leadership and the resources to implement them so they can more easily modernize their cultures from the inside-out.
We call our philosophy One-by-One Policing.
Our Resource Library
“Get to” vs. “Have to”…
One day I was wearing the uniform and the next day I wasn’t. In June 2024, I left the San Mateo County Sheriff’s Office because my leadership values and those of then-Sheriff Christina Corpus were too far apart to reconcile. So I made the hardest decision of my career: I took off the badge. I […]
Lead Like The Camera Is Always On
Lead Like the Camera Is Always On Because the future of policing will be defined by what your people do when it is. What the Camera Sees Culture isn’t found on a poster. It lives in the decisions your people make when no one is watching. Or at least, that used to be the case. […]
The Chaos Is the Job
The Chaos Is the Job There’s a moment every leader in policing knows well. You’ve finally gotten your arms around one issue. Your team has adapted. You’ve updated the training, revised the policy, had the conversation you needed to have. And then, almost on cue, something new lands on your desk. A new directive from […]
Authenticity Is Owning Who You Are
Authenticity Is Owning Who You Are The concept of authenticity has been a subject that is being batted around in business circles and policing circles a like. Conversations point to the importance of honesty, availability, and vulnerability in an evolving world of policing that is challenged to balance community expectations with officer safety, and care […]