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Speakers
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Eric E. Sterling, Assistant Counsel (Fmr.) | Eric Sterling, former Executive Director of the Criminal Justice Policy Foundation, knows just about all there is to know about U.S. drug policy. Eric was Counsel to the House of Representatives Committee on the Judiciary from 1979 to 1989. |
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First Sergeant Jessica Murphy | Jessica Murphy is a First Sergeant and Division Commander in the Special Operations Bureau of the Wicomico County Sheriff’s Office in Maryland. For 22 years, she has served as a school resource officer supervisor and academy instructor. |
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Chief Edward C. Jackson | Chief Edward C. Jackson served with the Baltimore Police Department for 21 years. He began as a foot patrolman and rose through the ranks to Colonel, finally retiring as Chief of the Administrative Division. He returned from retirement in 2018 to serve as the Inspector General of the Baltimore Police. In 2019, he became Chief […] |
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Captain Sonia Pruitt (Ret.) | Captain Sonia Pruitt (Ret.) began her law enforcement career as an officer with the Montgomery County Police Department in Maryland. She served as the Deputy Director of The Internal Affairs Division and was later promoted to Administrative Lieutenant for the Office of the Chief of Police, where she helped to oversee the department’s budget and […] |
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Detective Debbie Ramsey (Ret.) | Detective Debbie Ramsey (Ret.) began her law enforcement career in 1982 with the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland, where she served for 12 years. She rose through the ranks and became a community policing officer, patrol officer, and detective. |
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Captain Leigh Maddox (Ret.) | 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. |
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Major Neill Franklin (Ret.) | 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. |
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Judge Gordon McAllister (Ret.) | Gordon McAllister spent eight years as a criminal defense lawyer and public defender before beginning a 28-year career as a district court trial judge in Tulsa, Oklahoma. |
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Commissioner Michael Harrison | Michael Harrison began his law enforcement career in 1991 as an officer with the New Orleans Police Department. In 1995, he became a detective in the Major Case Narcotics Section and served for three years until he was promoted to Sergeant for the Eighth Police District and the Public Integrity Bureau. |
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Major Mike Hilliard (Ret.) | Michael Hilliard began his 27-year policing career in 1975 as a patrolman in an economically depressed neighborhood in East Baltimore. He later served as an internal affairs Detective. As a Sergeant, he supervised an undercover squad that investigated violent crimes and low-to mid-level drug crimes. As a Lieutenant, he coordinated the department’s youth programs. […] |
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