AG Brown showed leadership in response to federal immigration enforcement | GUEST COMMENTARY Guest commentary: Anthony Brown has emerged as a national leader in addressing the challenges posed by aggressive federal immigration enforcement operations.

Attorney General Anthony Brown a national leader in addressing aggressive federal immigration enforcement operations. Guidance to state and local law enforcement represents a model approach for protecting community trust and protecting officers from liability.
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Preserving professional policing: How Maryland leaders should respond to federal overreach - Maryland Matters The Trump administration's militarization of police leads to local operations that bear little resemblance to traditional law enforcement, writes Karl Bickel, but departments can reverse things, and b...

Maryland police leaders face an unprecedented crisis in American law enforcement. Deployment of masked federal agents, and attempted use of National Guard troops for civilian policing represents a threat to professional law enforcement.

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The future of community policing | GUEST COMMENTARY The future of community policing depends on whether leaders will embrace real change or empty rhetoric, writes Karl W. Bickel.

“Community policing faces an uphill battle toward meaningful implementation. The current federal policy environment, with its aggressive enforcement and cuts to community-based programs, signals an institutional retreat from collaborative approaches.”
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ALICE households and crime prevention: a path forward The Frederick News-Post on Sept. 10 provided us with an overview of the 2025 ALICE Report (“Report shows more county households faced financial insecurity in 2023”).

“ALICE households experience the very challenges that researchers have consistently identified as crime risk factors”
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When the line between police and military is blurred | GUEST COMMENTARY The blurring line between domestic policing and our military is an existential threat to our freedom, writes Karl W. Bickel.

“The bright red line between domestic policing and our military is being blurred and represents an existential threat to our freedoms, our democratic values — and our way of life."
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Don’t fall for Trump’s crime rhetoric | GUEST COMMENTARY Donald Trump’s crackdown on crime in Washington, D.C., is performative politics, writes Karl W. Bickel.

My thoughts on federal troops policing Washington, DC in today's Baltimore Sun.
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Getting in front of the police masking controversy - Maryland Matters Authorities need to think twice about the optics of heavily armed immigration officers with face coverings conducting raids in our communities, writes Karl Bickel, or risk undermining public trust, ev...

"The wearing of masks by ICE agents has had a chilling effect on communities where agents have conducted raids, particularly when naturalized and native-born citizens have been caught up in their net.

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Maryland can find compromise on ICE controversy | GUEST COMMENTARY There is a compromise solution to controversy over ICE’s 287(g) program, writes Karl W. Bickel.

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fredericknewspost.com | Frederick County Maryland Daily Newspaper

After more than a decade of political acrimony surrounding 287(g), it’s time to put the matter to bed by seeking a compromise that parties on both sides of the argument can live with.

287(g) and the art of the possible | Columns | fredericknewspost.com

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May Day demonstration, a day of reflection - Maryland Matters Karl Bickel took part in the May Day protests of 1971 and 2025 -- as a cop at the first and a protester at the second. This year's marches showed that people can peaceably make their voices heard if e...

"For me, May Day was a day of reflection as I attended a modest size demonstration in Frederick. It was not the first May Day demonstration for me. My first was in May 1971. May 2025 was different for me: I was a protester this time.”
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In the shadow of the Maryland State House at the Theatre in 360° in Annapolis, Eileen and I saw Alabama Story. Eileen’s friend Pam Wilterdink, played the starring role of Emily Wheelock Reed in the true story of a librarian who resisted book banning in a segregationist south in the 1950’s.

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Waking up to a 25-degree morning at the farm, what do you do? Start the day in front of a warm fire with a cup of tea, a biscuit and a good book.

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