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R. Gil Kerlikowske, Director, White House Office of
National Drug Control Policy
R. Gil Kerlikowske was nominated by President Obama
and confirmed by the U.S. Senate as the Director of the Office of National
Drug Control Policy. He was sworn in on May 7, 2009, as the Nation's
sixth "Drug Czar." In his position, Mr. Kerlikowske coordinates
all aspects of Federal drug control programs and implementation of
the President's National Drug Control Strategy.
Mr. Kerlikowske brings 37 years of law enforcement and drug policy
experience to the position. He most recently served 9 years as
the Chief of Police for Seattle, Washington. When he left, crime
was at its lowest point in 40 years. Previously, he was Deputy
Director for the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community
Oriented Policing Services, where he was responsible for over 6
billion dollars in Federal assets. Mr. Kerlikowske was also Police
Commissioner of Buffalo, New York. The majority of his law enforcement
career was in Florida where he served in the St. Petersburg Police
Department and later as Chief of Police in Port St. Lucie and Fort
Pierce.
He was elected twice to be President of the Major Cities Chiefs,
which is comprised of the largest city and county law enforcement
agencies in the United States and Canada, and was also elected
President of the Police Executive Research Forum. He has received
numerous awards and recognition for leadership, innovation, and
community service. He served in the U.S. Army where he was awarded
the Presidential Service Badge.
He served as the Chair of the Board of Directors of Fight Crime:
Invest in Kids, a national organization that advocates for evidence-based
programs that prevent youth from being involved in crime. He has
also served on the advisory boards of the Salvation Army in Buffalo
and Seattle, feeding the hungry and helping the homeless.
Mr. Kerlikowske holds a B.A. and M.A. in criminal justice from
the University of South Florida in Tampa, and is a graduate of
the F.B.I. National Executive Institute in Quantico, Virginia. |
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OPD Assistant Chief Howard Jordan
Assistant Chief Howard A. Jordan is a veteran of
the Oakland Police Department, having served for more than 21 years
in a range of assignments including Patrol, Investigations, Internal
Affairs and Administration.
Managing a staff of more than 800 police officers and 370 non-sworn
personnel, Chief Jordan is a consensus builder who motivates others
towards better performance. He considers all possible solutions while
making decisions and stays calm in crisis. Chief Jordan saw the Department
through the difficult hours of March 21, 2009, when four officers were
gunned down in less than 3 hours. His goal is to forge a stronger Department
and healthier community under his watch.
In 2007, Chief Jordan was promoted to the newly created position of
Assistant Chief, managing daily operations under then-Chief Wayne Tucker,
who groomed him as his potential replacement. When Chief Tucker resigned
in February 2009, Chief Jordan stepped in to lead the Department as
Acting Chief. He continues the crime reduction policies put in place
by Chief Tucker, including geographic and community policing, and supports
the changes prescribed by the NSA.
Born in the West Indies and raised in Brooklyn, NY, by a single mother
with a powerful work ethic, Chief Jordan savors Oakland's mélange of
people and cultures, and is proud of the fact that the Oakland Police
Department is the most diverse in the Bay Area.
Chief Jordan has a Master's degree in Public Administration from Cal
State Hayward. He is a graduate of the 219th FBI National Academy and
the Police Executive Research Forum's Senior Management Institute in
Policing. Chief Jordan serves as Vice President of the San Francisco
Bay Area Chapter of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement
and is a member of the California Police Chief's Association (which
appointed him to the Attorney General's Task Force to address Human
Trafficking in California) and the Commission on Peace Officer Standards
and Training (POST).
Now "an average dad on the sidelines", Chief Jordan has managed and
coached youth soccer and baseball teams in Contra Costa County for
many years. He volunteers for community outreach programs with Valley
Bible Church in Hercules, CA. Chief Jordan is married and has two daughters. |
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Captain Benson H. Fairow
Captain Fairow has been a member of the
Oakland Police Department since 1990 and is currently assigned as the
Department’s Inspector General. He has held various assignments in
the Patrol Division, Community Policing Unit, Narcotics Unit, Police
and Corrections Team, Internal Affairs Division, Bureau of Services,
and Youth and Family Services Division. Captain Fairow has also been
collaterally assigned as a Tactical Team member, Oakland Police
Academy instructor, U.S. Marshal Service Tactical Entry and High Risk
Warrant Service instructor, and as a member of the Oakland Police
Department Peer Support Group. |
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Tom Frazier
Thomas C. Frazier is CEO of Frazier Group, LLC, a private consulting firm specializing
in organizational assessment, best practices, and civil rights compliance. He
currently serves on the Independent Monitor Team overseeing the Department of
Justice Los Angeles and Detroit Consent Decrees. He is Executive Director of
the Major Cities Police Chiefs Association, a national professional association
representing the largest law enforcement agencies in the United States and Canada.
Prior to establishing Frazier Group, Tom served as Director of the Office
of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS) of the Department of Justice,
having been appointed by the President of the United States. In this capacity,
he directed programs including the funding and hiring of 100,000 police officers,
an $8.8 billion program, and the establishment of a national network of regional
community policing institutes.
Before his appointment to the COPS office, Tom served as Commissioner of the
Baltimore Police Department, an agency of over 4,000 employees. Baltimore is
one of the 20 largest police departments in the nation. He restructured the
BPD, focusing on strengthening the future of the City of Baltimore. As part
of this effort, he established the second largest Police Athletic League in
the nation, involving more then 10,000 young people.
Prior to his appointment as Commissioner in Baltimore, Tom retired as Deputy
Chief of Police of the San Jose Police Department in California. He served
the San Jose PD for 27 years. He served as commander in each of the agency’s
bureaus and led the agency's transition to community oriented policing.
Tom served as President of the Board of the Police Executive Research Forum
(PERF). He is currently a member of Homeland Security Task Force, Intelligence
and Local Law Enforcement Committee, and The Heritage Foundation. He is a Senior
Fellow at the Police Assessment Resource Center, Vera Institute of Justice.
Tom holds a Master of Science degree from San Jose State University and is
a graduate of the FBI National Executive Institute. |
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Chuck Wexler
Chuck Wexler, appointed as the Executive Director of the Police Executive Research
Forum (PERF) in 1993, leads a staff engaged in police and criminal justice research,
management studies and consulting, publication of research findings, technical
assistance, demonstration projects, and executive development and selection.
PERF is a membership organization of law enforcement chiefs from the larger police
agencies in the country. It was founded more than a quarter century ago by a
number of chiefs who saw a need for an organization dedicated to progressive
thinking about difficult issues in policing.
During his tenure at PERF, Wexler has been directly involved in numerous technical
assistance, research and consulting projects to improve the delivery of police
services. Examples of major projects include his work coordinating the development
and implementation of a comprehensive anti-crime strategy in Minneapolis that
is now a model for public-private cooperation. He has been involved in policing
projects in Chicago, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Northern Ireland, Kingston,
Jamaica, London and the Middle East. In each of these projects his purpose
is to more efficiently deliver policing services to the community. He oversaw
PERF's analysis of the investigation into the Washington sniper incidents,
serving as co-author of PERF's report, Managing Multijurisdictional Cases:
Lessons Learned from the Sniper Investigation. He also co-authored "Good
to Great" Policing: Application of Business Management Principles in the
Public Sector. Most recently PERF released a report "The Gathering Storm
- Violence in America" which has tracked the acceleration of violent crime
in the United States.
Prior to joining PERF, he worked as an assistant to the nation's first
Director of the Office of National Drug Control Policy where he identified
exemplary local initiatives and helped craft national policy.
A native of Boston, Wexler held a number of key positions in the Boston Police
Department. As Operations Assistant to the Police Commissioner, he played a
central role in the agency's management of racial violence in the wake of court-ordered
desegregation of the Boston School System. He was also instrumental in the
development and management of the Community Disorders Unit, which earned a
national reputation for successfully prosecuting and preventing racially motivated
crime.
Wexler graduated from Boston University with a Liberal Arts degree. He earned a Master's Degree in Criminology from Florida State University and a Ph.D. in Urban Studies and Planning from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
He has been an instructor at Bowdoin College and MIT.
In February 2006 he was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for his
extensive work with British and American police agencies. |
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Michael Durant
Michael J. Durant, CW4 (Retired), USA, born July 23, 1961,
in Berlin, NH. He entered the United States Army in August 1979. Following training at the Defense Language Institute, he was assigned to the 470th Military Intelligence Group, Fort Clayton, Panama, as a Spanish voice intercept operator. He was accepted and attended the Warrant Officer Basic Course followed by Primary Flight Training at Fort Rucker, Alabama. Upon appointment to WO1 in November 1983, he completed the UH60 Blackhawk Qualification Course and was assigned to the 377th Medical Evacuation Company, Seoul, Korea. His
next assignment was with the 101st Aviation Bn, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, where
he performed duties as an instructor pilot.
Mr. Durant joined the 160th Special Operations Group on August 1, 1988. Assigned to D company, he performed duties as Flight Lead and Standardization Instructor Pilot. He
participated in combat Operations Prime Chance, Just Cause (Panama invasion
December 1989), Desert Storm (Liberation of Kuwait in January-March 1991)
and Restore Hope (Somalia in August-October 1993).
On October 3, 1993, while piloting an MH60 Blackhawk in Mogadishu, Somalia,
he was shot down and held captive by hostile forces. He was released
eleven days later.
He is now the President and Chief Executive Officer of Pinnacle Solutions,
Incorporated, a training and simulation company based in Huntsville, Alabama. He
has a Bachelor of Science degree in Professional Aeronautics and a Master
of Business Administration degree in Aviation from Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
University.
He is a master aviator, qualified in the UH-1 Huey, MH-6 Loach, and MH-60A,
L, and K models of the Blackhawk. He has a total of 3,700 flight hours
with over 1,400 under Night Vision Goggles.
Awards include the Distinguished Service Medal, the Distinguished Flying
Cross with oak leaf cluster, Bronze Star with Valor device, Purple Heart,
Meritorious Service Medal, three Air Medals, one with Valor device, the POW/MIA
ribbon, the Army Commendation Medal with three Oak Leaf Clusters, and numerous
other awards. He is the author of the New York Times bestseller, In the Company
of Heroes and the newly released book titled The Night Stalkers. He
and his wife Lisa have six children, four boys and two girls ranging in age
from five to twenty-one. |
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Jack E. Enter
Jack Enter has been associated with the field of criminal
justice since 1972 when he began his career as a law enforcement officer. He has worked as a patrol officer, detective, vice/narcotics investigator, and as the administrator of a law enforcement agency in the suburbs of Atlanta. Dr. Enter obtained his Ph.D. in 1984 and has served as a professor and administrator in the university setting and served as Director of Information and Education for the Governor’s Criminal Justice Coordinating Council. He was also one of the research associates assigned to the planning of the security component of the 1996 Summer Olympic Games in Atlanta. He has lectured throughout the United States and abroad. He recently published his first book, Challenging the Law Enforcement Organization: Proactive Leadership Strategies. Dr. Enter lives in Auburn, Georgia, with his wife Barbara. They
have three adult children and five grandchildren. |
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Kevin Gilmartin
Dr. Gilmartin is a behavioral sciences and management consultant
specializing in the law enforcement and public safety. He spent twenty years in law enforcement in Tucson, Arizona. During his tenure, he supervised the Behavioral Sciences Unit and the Hostage Negotiations Team. He is a past recipient of the IACP-Parade Magazine National Police Officer Service Award for contributions during hostage negotiations. He presently maintains a consulting relationship with law enforcement agencies nationally in the U.S. and in Canada. He holds adjunct faculty positions with Cornell University’s New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, The University of Massachusetts Police Leadership Institute, and The Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas at Sam Houston State University. He is a guest instructor at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia and a faculty member of the FBI Law Enforcement Executive Development Institute (LEEDS and EDI). He is also a guest instructor at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center in Glynco, Georgia. He is retained by several Federal law enforcement agency critical incident response teams. He is a charter member of the IACP: Psychological Services Section and former Vice President of the Society of Police and Criminal Psychology. He holds a doctoral degree in clinical psychology from the University of Arizona. In addition to being the author of the book Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement, he is the author of numerous articles published by the Dept. of Justice, the IACP, and the FBI. He
is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and resides in Portland, Oregon and Tucson,
Arizona. |
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Phil Goff
Dr. Goff is an Assistant Professor of Social Psychology at the University of California, Los Angeles and also serves as the diversity consultant for the City and County of Denver and the Denver Police Department. Dr. Goff achieved his Ph.D. in Social Psychology at Stanford University. He is the co-founder and executive director for research of the Consortium for Police Leadership in Equity. He is an expert in contemporary forms of racial bias and discrimination, as well as the intersections of race and gender. He has conducted groundbreaking work exploring the ways in which racial prejudice is not a necessary precondition for racial discrimination; that is, despite the normative conceptualization of racial discrimination - that it stems naturally from prejudiced explicit or implicit attitudes - Dr. Goff’s research demonstrates that contextual factors can facilitate racially unequal outcomes. Dr. Goff’s work has been recognized by NIMH, SPSSI, the Woodrow Wilson Foundation, the Ford Foundation, the Mellon Foundation, and the Russell Sage Foundation. He is also the youngest member of the John Jay College of Criminal Justice advisory board for the Center on Race, Crime, and Justice. Dr. Goff has been recognized as a national leader in race and gender discrimination by legal practitioners as well, having served as an expert witness in several prominent regional and national cases. Most recently, Dr. Goff has been recognized as the emerging leader in research on race, gender, and policing. Dr. Goff spent the 2008-2009 academic year as a Visiting Scholar at the Russell Sage Foundation. Dr. Goff is the 2009 Early Career Award Recipient for APA’s Division 9 and Division 48. |
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Martin J. Mayer
Mayer is a name partner in the firm of Jones & Mayer (J&M) and serves as legal counsel to the Sheriffs and Chiefs of Police in approximately 70 law enforcement agencies throughout California He serves as General Counsel to the California State Sheriff's Association (CSSA), the California Police Chief's Association (CPCA) and the California Peace Officers' Association (CPOA), and has done so for approximately 25 years. Mr. Mayer is also responsible to oversee the attorneys in the firm of J&M who serve as City Prosecutor in the 16 cities where the firm provides that legal service.
Prior to merging with the Law Office of Richard D. Jones, Mr. Mayer was a name partner in the firm of Mayer & Coble, which provided legal advice and representation to police and sheriffs departments and served as the City Prosecutor for several municipalities. He is a graduate of the City University of New York and St John's University School of Law. He began his professional career in New York City as a deputy Public Defender and served in that capacity for five years. After relocating to California in 1975, he became the Director of the Criminal Justice Planning Unit for the League of California Cities. In 1980 he entered the private practice of law focusing on issues arising out of law enforcement.
Mr. Mayer is a graduate of the 6th FBI National Law Institute at Quantico, Virginia (designed for police legal advisors) and was the fist attorney in private practice to be invited to participate in the program. He also served for nine years as a POST reserve with the Downey Police Department.
Mr. Mayer writes and lectures extensively, in California and nationally, on legal issues which impact law enforcement including, but not limited to, the use of force, pursuits, discipline and due process, public records, personnel files, and the Public Safety Officers Procedural Bill of Rights Act. He presents on behalf of numerous statewide law enforcement associations and the California Commission on Peace Officers Standards and Training (POST). He has served on many POST committees as a subject matter expert and has participated in several POST Telecourses, which are used for training peace officers throughout the state. Mr. Mayer is also the 2005 recipient of the "Governor's Lifetime Achievement Award for Excellence in Peace Officer Training." |
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