Jails & Prisons Expert Witnesses in South Carolina

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; ...

Beaufort, South Carolina

Jails & Prisons - Jail Operations, Jail policies and procedures, Jail staffing, Jail in-custody deaths, Jail suicides, Use of force in jails, Inmate discipline, Conditions of confinement, Inmate classification, Jail medical contracts, Inmate grievance procedures, Inmate transportation

Mitch Lucas is a retired Assistant Sheriff of the Charleston County (SC) Sheriff's Office, where he oversaw all law enforcement, jail, and courthouse operations. Prior to his promotion to Assistant Sheriff, he was Chief Deputy/Jail Administrator of the Charleston County Detention Center, it being the largest jail in South Carolina. Mitch was responsible for all jail operations of the 2,100 bed facility, a juvenile detention facility and a holding facility at the county courthouse. The jail housed locally arrested individuals, as well as federal inmates and detainees for the Bureau of Prisons, U.S. Marshals Service, and Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). He managed the jail on a daily basis, reviewing all incident reports, use of force reports, internal affairs investigations and performance evaluations. He also led the jail to be accredited by the American Correctional Association (ACA). Mitch became involved with the American Jail Association (AJA), teaching jail operation ...