Working Groups
Social Problems Impacting Public Safety | Law Enforcement Recruitment & Training | Rural and Tribal Law Enforcement | Police Officer Health | Grant Programs | Technology | Respect for Law Enforcement | Business & Community Development | Reduction of Crime | Criminal Justice System Personnel Intersection | Juvenile Justice and Youth Crime | Victim Services | Data and Reporting | Re-Entry Programs and Initiatives | Homeland Security
Social Problems Impacting Public Safety
This group shall focus on how certain issues—mental illness, homelessness, and substance abuse—affect law enforcement. The group should focus not on the social problems themselves, but how their prevalence affects law enforcement resources, capacity, and morale. In doing so, the group should assess how other government resources (e.g. education, business, and social services) can cooperatively tackle the social ills that contribute to crime.
Homelessness
| Chairs Chief Mike Brown, Salt Lake City, UT |
Members Christina Nolan, United States Attorney -VT Sheriff Paul Penzone, Maricopa County, AZ |
Addiction
| Chairs Chief Karl Jegeris, Rapid City, SD |
Members Chief Hank Stawinski, PG County, MD Police Department Mayor Amy Bublak, Turlock, CA Thomas Loving, Director, Warren County, KY Drug Task Force Tim Shea, United States Attorney -DC |
Mental Health
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Sheriff Manny Gonzales, Bernalillo County, NM |
Members
John Milhiser, United States Attorney -C-IL Sheriff Don Barnes, Orange County, CA County Commissioner Mary Ann Borgeson, Douglas County, NE |
Law Enforcement Recruitment & Training
This group shall focus on the issues affecting officer recruitment, retention, and training. The group should specifically evaluate how to improve and increase the enlistment, retention, and training of police officers across the country.
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Chairs Chief Kristen Ziman, Aurora, IL PD Shannon Baldwin, PG County PD |
Members Chief Cynthia Renaud, Santa Monica, CA, Police Department Chief Billy Grogan, Dunwoody, GA, Police Department Russ Coleman, United States Attorney -W-KY Colonel John Batiste, WA State Patrol Erik Bourgerie, Director, CO Peace Officer Standards and Training |
Rural and Tribal Law Enforcement
This group shall focus on the major issues confronting rural and tribal law enforcement.
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Chairs Sheriff William ‘Bill’ Brueggemann, Cass County, NE Shannon Buhl, Cherokee Nation Marshal |
Members Chief Bill Denke, Sycuan Tribal Police Robert Everett, Stark County, OH Sheriff's Office Chief Dwight Henninger, Vail, CO, Police Department Sheriff Tyler Brown, Arapahoe County, CO Bryan Lockerby, Administrator, MT Div. of Criminal Investigation Kurt Alme, United States Attorney MT Jason O’Neal, Acting Director, Bureau of Indian Affairs Sheriff Kevin Thom, Pennington County, SD Sheriff Tony Harbaugh, Custer County MT Chief Michael Keller, Andover, KS Police Department |
Police Officer Health
This group shall focus on the physical safety and mental health of law enforcement officers.
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Chairs Commissioner William Gross, Boston, MA, Police Department Corey Nooner, Oklahoma City Police Department |
Members Chief Ernest N. Finley, Jr., Montgomery, AL, Police Department Jeff Jenson, United States Attorney -E-MO Chief Richard Biehl, Dayton, OH Police Department Patrick Callahan, NJ State Police Department Deputy Chief Chris Ciuci, Berlin, CT Police Department Deputy Wesley McDuffie, Tarrant County TX, SO |
Grant Programs
This group shall review the efficacy of federal grant programs in aiding state, local, and tribal law enforcement entities and constructively evaluate optimal use of federal funding for local law enforcement.
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Chairs Chief Paul Williams, Springfield, MO, Police Department Sheriff Andy Louderback, Jackson County, TX |
Members Karhlton Moore, Ohio Office of Criminal Justice Services Chief Keith Kauffman, Redondo Beach, CA Police Department Nicholas Trutanich, United States Attorney -NV Chief Wayne Jerman, Cedar Rapids, IA Police Department Chief Lou Dekmar, LaGrange, GA Police Department Gerry Serrano, President, Santa Ana Police Officers Association |
Technology
This group shall focus on how new, innovative, and developing technologies (e.g. encryption, autonomous vehicles, artificial intelligence, unmanned air systems) affect law enforcement in terms of both challenges and opportunities.
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Chairs Executive Assistant Director Darrin E. Jones, Science and Technology Branch, Federal Bureau of Investigation Chief Thomas Ruocco, TX Department of Public Safety |
Members Chief John Ortolano, Hobbs, NM, Police Department BJ Pak, United States Attorney -N-GA Sheriff Al Cannon, Charleston County, SC Chief Robert Tracy, Wilmington, DE Police Department Chief Jimmy Perdue, North Richland Hills, TX Police Department Chief Richard Smith, Kansas City, MO Police Department |
Respect for Law Enforcement
This group shall focus on the trend of diminished respect for law enforcement and the laws they enforce. The group should specifically evaluate how under-enforcement of the criminal law in certain jurisdictions affects:
- Public safety;
- Public perception of law enforcement and the laws they enforce;
- Police resources and morale;
- The rule of law.
The group shall also evaluate how to increase respect for law enforcement, how to improve community relations, and how a lack of respect for law enforcement impacts public safety and the rule of law.
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Chairs Jonathan Blodgett, District Attonery, Essex County, MA Rob Pride, Loveland, CO Police Department |
Members Chief Douglas Shoemaker, Grand Junction, CO Police Department Chief John Letteney, Apex, NC Police Department Sheriff Mike Bouchard, Oakland County, MI Erin Nealy Cox, United States Attorney -N-TX Deputy Director Eric Brown, OH Ohio High Intensity Drug Trafficking Area |
Business & Community Development
This group shall assess the role and influence of commercial businesses and community development organizations in fostering efforts to cultivate prosperous and safe communities.
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Chairs Chief Steve Anderson, Nashville, TN Police Department President Rick Snyder, Indianapolis, IN Fraternal Order of Police |
Members Chief Catrina Thompson, Winston Salem, NC, Police Department Chief Melissa Hyatt, Baltimore County, MD Police Department Sheriff Dennis Lemma, Seminole County, FL John Anderson, United States Attorney-NM |
Reduction of Crime
This group shall examine and evaluate trends in crime and the current use of targeted deterrence approaches to reduce violent crime, new and developing methodologies, technologies, and approaches for combatting criminal activity, delinquency, and public disorder. This group shall also focus on the integration of education, employment, social services, and public health services into efforts to reduce crime and ease the burden on law enforcement, courts, and corrections systems.
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Chairs Sheriff John Mina, Orange County, FL Hillar Moore, District Attorney, East Baton Rouge, LA |
Members Colonel Matt Packard, CO State Patrol Deputy Randy Reave, Jacksonville, FL Police Department Chief Justin Doll, Anchorage, AK Anchorage Police Department Sheriff John McMahon, San Bernardino, CA Director Bob Schurmeier, NC Federal Bureau of Investigation John Lausch, United States Attorney -N-IL Director Anthony Ambrose, Newark, NJ Police Department |
Criminal Justice System Personnel Intersection
This group shall examine how police, judges, prosecutors, defense attorneys, and correctional authorities intersect so that the system of criminal justice can enhance its ability to prevent and control crime and serve the victims of crime.
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Chairs Jay Town, United States Attorney -N AL Judge William O'Brien, Cook County, IL Circuit Court |
Members Bo Burk, Public Defender, Memphis, TN John Choi, District Attorney, Ramsey County, MN Joe Gamaldi, Houston Police Department Brian Moran, VA Secretary of Public Safety Deputy Commissioner Brian Redd, Utah Department of Public Safety Sheriff Kevin Schneider, Polk County, IA |
Juvenile Justice and Youth Crime
This group shall focus on juvenile and youth delinquency, which includes examining the causes of youth violence (e.g. family, socioeconomic factors, education) and law enforcement’s role as the initial point of contact with the criminal justice system.
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Chairs Chief William Blair Anderson, St. Cloud, MN, Police Department Stefanie Salavantis, District Attorney, Luzerne County, PA |
Members Gregory Stuber, Legislative Vice President, Sacramento County Probation Mayor Pro Tem Juan Villegas, Santa Ana, CA Judge Tim Irwin, Knox County, TN Tim Shea, United States Attorney -DC Chris Bryant, Hoover, AL Police Department Sheriff Scott Mascher, Yavapai County, AZ Juvenile Chief Anthony V. Pierro, Ocean County, NJ Prosecutor’s Office |
Victim Services
This group shall examine cross-system programs on the federal, state, and local level that leverage criminal justice system professionals to better address the needs of victims of crime (e.g. human trafficking, hate crimes, working with trauma, elderly victims of crime, homeless, youth, victims with limited English proficiency).
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Chairs Bob Troester, First Assistant US Attorney, United States Attorney-OK |
Members Chief David Porter, Dewitt, IA Police Department Kirsten Pabst, District Attorney, Missoula County, MT Darrell Basco, Pineville, LA Police Department Chief Ken Walker, West University Place, TX Police Department Paul Jagosh, Boise, ID Police Department Don Cochran, United States Attorney -M-TN |
Data and Reporting
This group shall review current data being collected by the federal government as it relates to crime, the criminal justice system and law enforcement (e.g. National Incident-Based Reporting System, Use of Force, Hate Crimes, Uniform Crime Reporting) and evaluate the methodologies on how that data is being collected and how it is being used, and identify any gaps in needed data that is not being collected of relevance to the well-being of law enforcement and crime prevention methods.
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Chairs Chief William Brooks, Norwood, MA, Police Department |
Members Assistant Chief Kevin Hall, Tucson, AZ Police Department Chief James Craig, Detroit, MI, Police Department Christian Dorton, Houston, TX Police Department Scott Brady- United States Attorney -W-PA Chief Sean Duggan, Chandler, AZ Police Department Chief Trudy Ford, Criminal Justice Information Services Section, Federal Bureau of Investigation |
Re-Entry Programs and Initiatives
This group shall focus on how prisoner programming and post-custodial rehabilitation initiatives can reduce recidivism and improve the quality of life for criminal offenders and their communities.
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Chairs Sheriff Peter Koutoujian, Middlesex County, MA |
Members Sheriff Vernon Stanforth, Fayette County, OH Mark Dupree, District Attorney, Wyandotte County, KS Daniel Junior, Director, Miami-Dade Corrections & Rehabilitation Matt Schneider, United States Attorney E-MI Tim Shea, United States Attorney -DC |
Homeland Security
This group shall study how law enforcement should address evolving threats to national security in the sphere of domestic and international terrorism.
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Chairs Sheriff Mike Chapman, Loudon County, VA AD Jill Sanborn, CT Division, Federal Bureau of Investigation |
Members Ray Villanueva, SAC, Homeland Security Investigations Sheriff Ted Jackson, Fulton County, GA Rich Donohue, United States Attorney-E-NY Sheriff Leon Wilmot, Yuma County, AZ |