From 1974 to 1979, Ken Abraham was a deputy attorney general for Delaware with statewide authority and jurisdiction to prosecute all criminal cases. He is a veteran of more than 400 jury and 200 non—jury trials and has handled thousands of cases in every State Court in Delaware. Later on, as a defense attorney, he represented […]

Major Neill Franklin is a 34-year law enforcement veteran of the Maryland State Police and Baltimore Police Department. During his time on the force, he held the position of commander for the Education and Training Division and the Bureau of Drug and Criminal Enforcement.  

Diane Goldstein joined the Redondo Beach Police Department in 1983. She rose from a Patrol Officer and School Resource Officer to Sergeant in the Special Investigations Unit, served as a Division Commander, and retired as a lieutenant in 2004. She was the first female lieutenant in the department.    

Judge James P. Gray authored “Why Our Drug Laws Have Failed And What We Can Do About It: A Judicial Indictment of the War on Drugs.” It was the culmination of his experience as a former federal prosecutor, defense attorney, and trial judge.

Inge Fryklund was a prosecutor in Chicago where she served as Supervisor of the Criminal Appeals Division in the Office of the Cook County State‘s Attorney. In this capacity, she was in charge of all criminal appeals. More recently, she spent almost five years in Afghanistan, working with the legal system and advising national, provincial, […]

Leigh Maddox retired as a Captain from the Maryland State Police in 2007. In the 1990s, she worked as a patrol trooper and supervisor; serving in the Intelligence Division. Maddox worked long-term undercover assignments and infiltrated organizations such as the Klu Klux Klan.

Richard Van Wickler (Ret.) began his law enforcement career in 1987 and served as the Superintendent of the Cheshire County Department of Corrections in Keene, New Hampshire, from 1993 to 2019. Van Wickler is a former adjunct professor of American Corrections at Keene State College, where he taught for 14 years.  

  Ken’s law enforcement career began in 1995, as one of the first officers hired under the DOJ/COPS Program. He worked the next 15 years in the Brockton Police Department.  

  Rusty White was a top K—9 narcotics dog trainer, Track and Attack K-9 trainer and handler and served as the sniperfor the Department of Corrections. White also worked for 7 years as a corrections officer in an maximum security prison in Arizona.    

David M. Long served for nearly nine years as a special agent with the US. Department of Labor’s Office of Inspector General, Division of Labor Racketeering, working union corruption and related organized crime cases in Florida. Later, he was transferred to Los Angeles where he began investigating identitytheft cases tied to the Mexican Mafia.

Carl Tennenbaum became a Field Training Officer (FTO) in 1984, a position that he held during the entire course of his career. As a FTO, he was responsible for teaching police recruits the strategies of safe and successful patrol duties.

  Judge John Delaney is a retired state district court judge who continues to hold court in Texas by special assignment. Even though he’s retired, he currently presides over all child abuse and neglect cases in his county. In over 33 years as a trial judge, he presided over 570 jury trials, mostly felony cases. […]

  John I. Dixon, III joined law enforcement in the 1980s. He first served in the US Marine Corps and then for 25 years as a police officer in Richmond, Virginia, rising from patrol officer to the rank of major. He became Chief of Police in 2007.  

Allison Watson is a former Assistant District Attorney for the 13th Judicial District of Tennessee and has over 12 years of legal experience in both government and the private sector. She has served on various non-profit boards and inter-disciplinary teams advocating for children, human rights and criminal justice reform.

Kyle Kazan is a retired police officer of the Torrance Police Department in Los Angeles County, California. During his service, Kazan gained recognition as an expert in gang and drug identification and eradication.    

  Norm Stamper was a police officer for 34 years, the first 28 in San Diego, and the last six as Seattle’s police chief. In his 28 years with SDPD Norm rose quickly through the ranks and as deputy chief sen/ed in each of the department’s bureaus.

  Larry Kirk was the chief of police for a department in Illinois and, most recently, a small town in Missouri. Since 1993, he has worked in patrol, special crimes units, gang suppression, jurisdictional narcotics task forces, and in a college police department. He has been recognized for his work in drug and gang investigations […]

Stephen Downing began his 20-year police career in a squad car and finished as a deputy chief of police. As Commander of the Bureau of Special Investigations at one point, the Administrative Narcotics Division was one of the divisions within his scope of authority. Downing is an expert on issues related to police militarization, civil […]

Dominick “Nick” Bucci is a retired New Jersey State Trooper who spent 25 years confronting street level drug dealers and international drug smugglers. His work involved over 1,000 arrests and convictions.