Police Practices Expert

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Marcus has over 25 years of law enforcement experience in a wide variety of assignments, including over a decade with the SWAT team, where he served as an operator, sniper, team leader, and commander. He also served as a supervisor on his mobile field force team. Marcus worked various assignments, including uniformed crime suppression, homicide, property crimes, narcotics, and an auto theft task force. Marcus served as a police officer in a city of 200,000 people in the north bay of California. He currently serves as the Executive Director of the California Association of Tactical Officers and was an original plank holder of CATO's Strategic Leadership Program. Prior to that position, Marcus served as the Vice President. He currently serves as the Conference Director and member of the training cadre, where he developed the curriculum and teaches Critical Incident Leadership for supervisors, SWAT Team Leaders, SWAT Commanders, Demonstration Response, and Tactical Strategies for middle management. He was fortunate to be part of the instructor cadre for tactical science. He has helped develop the curriculum for the Rocky Mountain Tactical Association and the Ohio Tactical Officers Association. Marcus has served on the curriculum development team for California POST Supervisor School and the California POST SWAT guidelines. He has also taught at the California POST Supervisor and Management schools. Over the past four years, Marcus has provided consulting and expert witness services to several large metropolitan agencies regarding de-escalation, body-worn cameras, tactical operations, officer-involved shootings, use of force, crowd control, chemical agents, and less lethal methods. He also has experience working with agencies under federal consent decrees. Marcus is available nationally and works with plaintiff, defendant, and criminal court clients in state and federal court. Marcus holds a Master of Science degree in Law Enforcement and Public Safety and a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration.