Josephson Exemplary Policing initiatives provide policing agencies with practical strategies and resources to enhance institutional effectiveness and credibility.
Our experts provide insights and best practices to create an organizational culture that enhances morale, growth, and profitability while reducing risks associated with unethical behavior.
An exemplary policing agency earns public trust when officers and leaders act lawfully and ethically by
Modern policing agencies fulfill multi-dimensional expectations, including
Exemplary policing organizations focus on developing positive internal culture by:
Ethical collapse rarely begins with corruption. It begins with a justified shortcut, misplaced loyalty, unchecked pride, or the belief that this time is different. Through real cases and the Six Pillars of Character, participants learn to recognize ethical drift before the damage becomes irreversible.
Agency-Wide: sworn, supervisors, command, and civilian professionals
Certified for continuing education credit in 20+ states. Presented to law enforcement audiences nationwide with an overall participant evaluation average of approximately 4.9/5.
Some decisions resolve the immediate problem. Far fewer produce the Best Possible Result. This course teaches the eight-step BPR framework so officers can slow critical moments, evaluate consequences, and make decisions that remain defensible after urgency and emotion are gone.
Patrol officers, investigators, first-line supervisors, and command staff
Built around JEPI’s practical Best Possible Result framework for defensible decision-making in real-world policing situations.
Officer wellness requires more than wellness programs. It requires a healthy organization. Built on the Josephson Exemplary Policing Framework, this course examines whether culture, leadership, workplace systems, performance expectations, and employee-development practices strengthen people or quietly wear them down. Participants assess organizational wellness through procedural integrity, mission performance, and organizational excellence.
Executives, command staff, supervisors, wellness, HR, training, and IA leaders
Built on the Josephson Exemplary Policing Framework for agency-wide organizational wellness and leadership application.
Campus officers enforce criminal law while navigating Title IX, Clery reporting, student conduct, mental health crises, protest activity, parental pressure, media attention, and institutional reputation. This course is built around the unique environment, not adapted from a generic patrol curriculum.
Campus police, public safety, supervisors, chiefs, and institutional partners
Featured at the 2025 IACLEA Annual Conference. Participant evaluation score: 5.0/5.
The most effective IA units do more than investigate misconduct after it occurs. They help prevent it. Participants learn to convert complaints, case patterns, policy gaps, and organizational data into training, early intervention, and practical risk reduction.
Internal Affairs, professional standards, supervisors, and command staff
Presented at the 2025 National Internal Affairs Investigators Annual Conference. Average participant evaluation score: 4.95/5.
Charging decisions are among the most consequential actions a prosecutor makes. Once a charge is filed, the system is set in motion, and the damage of a mistake can be irreversible. This course examines charging decisions through real cases, helping participants make decisions with integrity, humility, and long-term perspective.
Prosecutors, supervisors, investigators, command staff, and decision-makers
Pennsylvania District Attorneys Association Mid-Winter and Spring Conferences — 4.9/5 evaluation score. High marks for relevance, impact, and practical takeaways.
Jim leads our national effort to elevate ethics, character, and leadership in law enforcement. A former Captain of Detectives and Police Academy Director, Jim’s promising 13-year career in policing ended abruptly after an ethical misstep during a high-profile narcotics case led to criminal charges and personal ruin.
What followed was a hard-earned journey of accountability and redemption. Jim rebuilt his life in the private sector, becoming a senior executive in sales and mergers & acquisitions across multiple industries. Now, he brings both lived experience and hard-won insight into the national conversation on police integrity.
Through JEPI and his powerful Honoring the Badge training, Jim helps agencies confront ethical challenges head-on, blending his story with a message of resilience, reform, and a renewed commitment to public trust.
He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Criminal Justice from Pfeiffer University and a Master’s degree in Education from Seton Hall University. He and his wife Beth have been married for 37 years and have three adult children and two grandsons.
Michael Josephson is an influential and internationally renowned champion of character education for ethical conduct in business, government, policing, and law. Employing his groundbreaking insights and strategies, Mr. Josephson has assisted law enforcement agencies to strengthen individual and institutional decision-making and create sustainable ethical cultures.
He is the author of over a dozen books and major studies including the Exemplary Peace Officer series for police officers. Michael has received many honors for his work including America’s Award for Integrity presented by former President Ronald Reagan.
Josephson Exemplary Policing was created by Michael Josephson. Click here to learn more about Michael.
JEPI is committed to supporting law enforcement and justice professionals nationwide. Below is a list of upcoming conferences, training events, and association meetings where our team will be presenting or attending. Explore upcoming events and register online for Open-Enrollment sessions through our Eventbrite page.
JEPI is now scheduling training opportunities for 2027 and welcomes inquiries from law enforcement agencies, academies, associations, and conference organizers. If you’re interested in hosting a training, attending an upcoming event, or learning more about JEPI’s services, please complete our inquiry form.
“Past behavior is the most reliable predictor of future behavior.”
– Gordon Livingston
“Listening without bias or distraction is the greatest value you can pay another person.”
– Denis Waitley
“The more powerful a person or institution is, the more transparent – open to public inspection or oversight – its activities should be. The less powerful, the less transparent.”
– George Scialabba
“The police are the public and the public are the police.”
– Robert Peel
“This particular consent decree not only looks at the police department, but it also looks at how we engage our community.”
– Catherine E. Pugh
“Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely.”
– Lord Acton
“The most important thing I learned was that you control your crowd, not the other way around.”
– Talib Kweli
“It is our choices… that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities.”
– J.K. Rowling
“What it lies in our power to do, it lies in our power not to do.”
– Aristotle
“Judgment is not upon all occasions required, but discretion always is.”
– Lord Chesterfield
“The time is always right to do what is right.”
– Martin Luther King, Jr.
“Physical fitness is the basis for all other forms of excellence.”
– John F. Kennedy
“How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really large and complex set of skills. A lot of it is on-the-job training, combined with excellent mentorship.”
– Ben Horowitz
“A good leader inspires people to have confidence in the leader, a great leader inspires people to have confidence in themselves.”
– Eleanor Roosevelt
“To the person who does not know where he wants to go, there is no favorable wind.”
– Seneca the Younger
“The more we care for the happiness of others, the greater is our own sense of well-being.”
– Dalai Lama
“You got to be rigorous in your appraisal system. The biggest cowards are managers who don’t let people know where they stand.”
– Jack Welch
“The history of liberty has largely been the history of the observance of procedural safeguards.”
– Felix Frankfurter
“After a traumatic experience, the human system of self-preservation seems to go on to permanent alert, as if the danger might return at any moment.”
– Judith Lewis Herman
“I would never recruit a player who yells at his teammates, disrespected his high school coach, or scores 33 points a game and his team goes 10-10.”
– Dean Smith
“Resilience is very different than being numb. Resilience means you experience, you feel, you fail, you hurt. You fall. But, you keep going.”
– Yasmin Mogahed
“If you’re sick, take your sick day. If you don’t take your sick day, know what your reward is? You weren’t sick – that was the reward.”
– Chris Christie
“Privacy is dead, and social media holds the smoking gun.”
– Pete Cashmore
“Statistics and numbers are no good unless you have good people to analyze and then interpret their meaning and importance.”
– Brendan Rodgers
