Jail Policy Expert Witnesses

Huntington Beach, California

Police Practices & Procedures, Jails & Prisons - Pursuit Policy, Use-of-Force, Crime Foreseeability, Lethal Use-of-Force, Excessive Force, In-Custody Death, Firearms, Less-Than-Lethal, Reasonable Suspicion, Probable Cause, Searches, Internal Affairs, Crime & Arrest, Jail Policy, Jail Custody, Jail Suicide, Bars/Night Clubs, Security

POLICE PRACTICES, POLICY & PROCEDURE; JAILS AND PRISIONS EXPERT • HONORABLY RETIRED SERGEANT, LOS ANGELES POLICE DEPARTMENT (LAPD) o Served from April 1980 to November 2013 o Extensive field experience: 18 years responding to tens of thousands of emergency calls o Certified Peace Officer (P.O.S.T.): Basic, Intermediate, Advanced, Supervisory • CRIMINAL INVESTIGATIONS AND CRIMINAL JUSTICE EXPERTISE o Detective trainee, Southeast Division, Major Assault Crimes o Filed cases with District and City Attorneys o Testified 150+ times as fact witness and investigator in various courts o Specialized in Proposition 115 preliminary hearings and Peace Officer Hearsay Testimony • TRAINING & LEADERSHIP o Criminal Law Instructor, Los Angeles Police Academy o Designed curriculum and trained new recruits and seasoned officers o Promoted to Sergeant in 1998; trained and monitored officers daily o Conducted and reviewed thousands of investigations and reports • INTERNAL AFFAIRS; LEGAL AFFAIRS; ...

Mount Vernon, Oregon

Jails & Prisons - Jail Policy, Jail Administration, Jail Practices, Use of Force, Jail Standards, Prison Policies, Prison Administration, Prison Practices, Jail Supervision , Failure to Protect, Jail Operations, Prison Operations, Jail Facilities, Conditions of Confinement, Segregation, Inmate Discipline, Solitary Confinement, Religious Rights, RLUIPA

As a former corrections officer, the author of the Oregon State Sheriff's Association Jail Standards, a frequent national presenter on correctional issues, a former criminal justice professor, a former instructor at the Oregon basic corrections and police academies, an attorney who has handled corrections cases for over twenty years and the General Counsel to the Oregon State Sheriff's Association I have a very broad base of knowledge on correctional issues. If you need an expert on corrections policies, administration, practices, supervision, use of force, restraints, failure to protect, conditions of confinement, religious rights, inmate discipline, contractor oversight or compliance with standards please give me a call. I began my corrections career in 1990 as a corrections officer at the maximum-security Oregon State Penitentiary, including spending a year working in the Disciplinary Segregation/Death Row unit. For many years, I was a faculty member of the Americans for E...