Excessive Force Expert Witnesses in Pennsylvania

This expert is recognized by CNN, FOX News, PIX 11 News, BBC, the United Nations Associated Press and a multitude of other media outlets as an expert in police tactics and procedures. He served 20 years in the NYPD, where he trained recruits in the Police Academy and investigated police corruption and misconduct as a Lieutenant in the Internal Affairs Bureau. He holds a doctoral degree from Fordham University and currently teaches Criminal Justice at two New York City colleges.

This highly qualified expert attended Marist College before joining the New York Police Department. After his retirement from NYPD, he became the director of hospital police at Bellevue Hospital where he was responsible for the operations of the hospital police personnel and the overall safety and security of the hospital. This expert was formerly the Chair of NYC Health and Hospitals Board of Directors of Hospital Police. He designed and established a local Hospital Police Academy, where has trained approximately 800 health and hospital police officers annually. Additionally, this expert adapted the state’s Peace Officer curriculum and developed content to enhance security guard training. Currently, he serves as the Commissioner of Hospital Police for a state entity.

This highly qualified professional has over 40 years of law enforcement experience. He has been conducting law enforcement training since 1977 with an emphasis on Street Gangs and Organized Crime and was assigned as training deputy inside the Hall of Justice Jail, while employed with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department. Formerly, he held roles as Investigator/ Extradition Officer at Illinois Department of Corrections, Deputy Sherrif at Los Angeles County, Detective at Prince Georges County Police and Instructor for the Maryland Police and Correctional Training Commission. Currently, he is the Owner of a law enforcement training consulting and professional investigations firm.

This expert has over 32 years experience in Law Enforcement, Fire/EMS and Public Safety. He has a great deal of experience in Emergency Planning and Emergency Exercises in both University and traditional environments. He works as a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) with ASIS International and through hands on experience with access control systems, alarms and CCTV, which as given him a back ground in physical security and security technology. He is also a nationally recognized expert on emergency management and communication on college campuses. He has been published on topics such as physical security issues and alcohol related issues on university campuses. He has specialties as an expert in Emergency Exercises, Emergency Skills Training, Crime Risk Analysis, Law Enforcement Assessment, and Security Technology Assessment.

This expert has 35 years of experience in the field of police policy and procedure. He earned his BS in criminal justice from John Jay College of Criminal Justice and his MPA from Harvard University. He is a member of the International Association of Chiefs of Police. He previously served at the New York Police Department for 20 years, starting as an officer and sergeant before becoming lieutenant and, eventually, captain. He is currently a proprietor for a test preparation school for lieutenants, sergeants and police officers in New York as well as an independent consultant in police policy and procedure.

This highly-qualified expert has extensive experience with DEA suspicious order monitoring, as well as opioid and other controlled substance regulations. He earned his BS from Great Lakes University and his MS from Everest University, where he graduated summa cum laude. He is a member of the National Association of Drug Diversion Investigators and the International Health Facility Diversion Association. He formerly served as a state trooper in the Alaska Department of Public Safety and a member of the narcotics detective federal task force at Rapides Parish Sheriff's Office. He later worked as a chief health and safety investigator at MAI LLC, a physical security contractor at the US Department of Homeland Security, and the director of regulatory compliance at Miami-Luken. He is currently a president and CEO at a private consulting company in OH.

This qualified expert has over 15 years of experience in law enforcement and police use of force tactics and standards. He earned his AS in computer science from the State University of New York at Cobleskill and is currently pursuing a BS in criminal justice at Columbia Southern University. He began his career as a police officer with the Glen Falls Police Department where, during his 9 years with the department, he trained members of police department in firearms, tasers, and conducting defensive tactics and reality-based training exercises. He then went on to serve as a police officer with the Warren County Sheriff's Office. Currently, this expert serves as a consultant and instructor at a tactical training organization in New York. Throughout his career in law enforcement, he has gained expertise in defensive tactics and law enforcement training and has qualifications as a firearms instructor, defensive tactics instructor, taser instructor, and chemical munitions instructor.

This highly qualified expert in police policy and procedures has over 25 years of experience. After earning his BA from Saint Francis College, this expert went on to finish two MA programs in criminal justice and police management from Columbia University Business School and John Jay College of Criminal Justice. This expert also earned his MPA at Harvard University and his JD from CUNY School of Law. He is certified in federal emergency management administration as well as emergency incident management for executives. Formerly, this expert has held roles as a police officer, lieutenant, commanding officer, and sergeant with the NYPD. Currently, he is the president of a police training publication company and a consultant and general counsel for a NY police procedure consultancy.

This highly qualified police policy and procedures expert has over 35 years of experience, and has extensive experience in undercover and surveillance operations, as well as narcotics identification and investigations. He earned his AS in criminal justice from the County College of Morris, and both his BS in justice studies and his MSM in criminal justice administration from the College of Saint Elizabeth. He is also a graduate of the FBI National Academy. He is certified as a public manager and as a master use of force instructor and is active in his field as a member of several organizations, including the American Society of Industrial Security and the National Tactical Officers Association. This expert spent 24 years with the Union City New Jersey Police Department, beginning with the department as a patrolman. He then went on to work in the narcotics division as a detective, the narcotics task force supervisor, and eventually the commanding officer of the division while he was a lieutenant. He also served as a patrol tour commander, the police liaison to the Office of the Mayor, the patrol division commander, and the captain. Before his retirement from the police department, he served as the deputy chief of police. Since 2009, this expert has owned and operated his own private investigation company in New Jersey.

This highly-qualified expert has over 16 years of professional experience in multiple assignments in law enforcement, with demonstrated experience in use of force, training, and policies and procedures. He earned his BS in national security studies from New Jersey City University and later earned his JD from Rutgers Law School. He holds several certifications including public manager, use of force analysis, critical infrastructure protection, hostage negotiator, critical incident training instructor, firearms instructor, and advanced law enforcement rapid response training. Formerly, this expert served as a corrections officer and sheriff's officer for the Morris County Sheriff's Office. He also was a sergeant of marines in the United States Marine Corps before becoming a team leader for the Hudson County Regional SWAT Team/Crisis Negotiation Team. Currently, this expert is a police sergeant at a city police department in New Jersey.

This EDR expert is a principal at a vehicular accident reconstruction consultancy. He retired from law enforcement after a twenty-five year career, during which time he investigated over 2500 motor vehicle collisions. Fourteen of those years he served with the Bergen County (NJ) Prosecutor's Office Fatal Accident Investigation Unit. This expert earned a degree in mechanical engineering, summa cum laude, from the New Jersey Institute of Technology and he is ACTAR accredited. He has testified as an expert in depositions and trials. He participates in crash testing with the University of Tulsa Crash Reconstruction Research Consortium and the University of North Florida. This expert teaches advanced accident reconstruction classes and lectures throughout the country at accident reconstruction conferences. He has performed more than 100 EDR downloads.

This subway operations expert served as a motorman/train operator for the New York City Transit Authority's subway system for almost 30 years. He is proficient in the operations of all facets of subways and SMEE equipment, including but not restricted to air brake systems, electrical systems, and full spectrum knowledge of undercarriage/body construction. He is also an expert in wayside signal operation, roadbed design, track and switch design, "Chemical Right to Know", and other OSHA required safety regulations.

This expert has 45 years in public safety. He has spent the past 6 years on a college campus and has extensive experience in police policy and procedures in Maryland and Delaware. Additionally, he holds a JD from the University of Maryland.

This expert has over 30 years of experience as a police officer, mainly at the University of Maryland Police Department. His expertise lies in campus and student safety in all aspects of campus public safety, as well as law enforcement in Higher education and small city populations. He has handled bicycles cases where they being operated in restricted and populated areas on campus that required him to uphold the specific bike policy in place. Experienced in municipal and state task forces and alliances with cities dealing with town and gown issues.

This expert has more than three decades of experience securing public safety in municipal transit environments. As a Deputy Chief of a major transit network, he has authority over police operations in multiple areas of New York City, including in Penn Station. He has received advanced emergency management and intelligence training from FEMA, the FBI, and the DHS.