David C. Couper: priest, police chief, poet, and social activist

David C. Couper

police chief, priest, poet, and social activist

FOLLOW my blog "IMPROVING POLICE" on leadership, training, organizational transformation, and current/critical issues.

WHY FAITH?
A "question and answer" interview with me regarding my faith.

WHY CANCER?
Our struggle with a terminal CANCER and kidney failure.

“Restoration Point" contains a number of poems I have written over the past half-century.

My newest book of poetry includes many police-related events in my life.

You can order this book HERE

CONTACT
Email: davidccouper@gmail.com

Phone: (608) 444-7207

Who Am I?

Family: Married to Sabine Lobitz (retired Captain with the State Capitol Police). Hobbies/Interests Lifetime sports (running, biking and skiing). Travel. Martial arts. Poetry.

Career Experience:

Priest in Charge, St Peter’s Episcopal Church, North Lake, WI., January, 2005 to present.
Lecturer in Criminal Justice, University of Wisconsin at Platteville, 2016-2018.
Priest in Charge, St. John the Baptist Episcopal Church, Portage, WI, December, 1995 to 2005.
Resident Chaplain; Meriter Hospital, Madison, WI, September, 1994 to August. 1995.
Chief of Police; City of Madison, WI, 1972-1993 (retired).
Director of Public Safety; City of Burnsville, MN, 1969-1972.
Detective, Police Trainer, and Police Officer, City of Minneapolis, MN, 1962-69.
Graduate Teaching Assistant; University of Minnesota, Department of Sociology, 1968-1971.
Police Officer, City of Edina, MN, 1960-62.
Active Duty: U.S. Marine Corps, 1956-60; Reserve Duty, 1962-68

Education:

Edgewood College, Madison, M. A., Religious Studies, 2005.
Seminary, Nashotah House, Certificate in Anglican Studies, 1994.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, M.A., Sociology (Criminology and Deviant Behavior), 1970.
University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, B.A., Russian Language, 1968

Other Articles and Publications:

"Quality Leadership: The First Step Towards Quality Policing," with Sabine Lobitz in The Police Chief magazine, April, 1987.
"Police Department Learns Ten Hard Lessons, "Quality Progress Magazine, Milwaukee, October, 1990.
Quality Policing: The Madison Experience, with Sabine Lobitz, Police Executive Research Forum, Washington, DC, 1991.
"Effective Community Oriented Policing: Vision, Leadership and the Problem Solving Method," with Sabine Lobitz in The Police Chief Magazine, May, 1991.
"Forgiveness in the Community: Views from an Episcopal Priest and Former Chief of Police," in Exploring Forgiveness, Robert Enright and Joanna North, editors, University of Wisconsin Press, 1998.
Books: How to Rate Your Local Police (1983, 2015), The Quality Leadership Workbook (2017), Arrested Development: A Veteran Police Chief Sounds Off About Protest, Racism and Corruption and the Seven Steps Necessary to Improve Our Nation's Police (2012, 2017), Restoration Point: A Book of Poetry (2011), and Telling It Like It Is: Couper on Cops (2017). [SEE BELOW.]