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The FSRC has recruited a blue-ribbon advisory board of experts who are the best in the nation in their professional fields. National Advisory Board members advise the conduct of FSI and may collaborate on research projects.

Alexis Artwohl, Ph.D. provides training and consultation across the USA and Canada. She consistently receives excellent ratings from the many police officers she has trained across North America.

During her 16 years as a private practice clinical and police psychologist she provided traumatic incident debriefings and psychotherapy to officers and their family members at multiple agencies in the Pacific Northwest.

In January 1999 Dr. Artwohl closed her clinical practice to join her husband, Assistant Chief Dave Butzer, in his retirement from the Portland Police Bureau. They can now devote all their efforts to training and consultation.

Thomas J. Aveni has been a career law enforcement officer, having served on the local and state levels in three states (NJ, UT, NH). His police career began in 1978, and he has served as a police trainer since 1983. From 1990 to 2001 Tom served as a police "Training Coordinator" with the once prestigious Smith & Wesson Academy. At the academy, was instrumental in training over 12,000 police and military personnel from across the United States and 23 other countries.

Since 1996, Mr. Aveni's police training focus became oriented toward replicating so-called "questionable" police shootings. These shootings routinely involve suspects who were unarmed and non-assaultive when shot by police. By quantifying many of the variables in such shootings he was able to develop a working thesis as to why questionable police shootings occur with such frequency. Previous studies have suggested that 25-43% of police shootings are of unarmed suspects. Mr. Aveni's most current research suggests that at least 17% of police shootings fall within defined "mistake-of-fact" parameters. Tom has also examined the influence of bias and contextual expectations upon an officer's inclination to use deadly force.

Mr. Aveni's research into questionable police shootings began with his examination of issues pertinent to policing under low light conditions. In the process, he became one of the most accomplished experts in the field of police training in low light, conditions, under which 71% of "questionable" police shootings occur.

Mr. Aveni achieved his undergraduate degree in Criminal Justice with a minor in psychology from Westfield State College, MA. He received his Master's Degree in Forensic Psychology from American International College, Springfield, MA.

Tom still serves as a sworn police officer on the municipal level in New Hampshire.

Cory M. Brente is a Supervising Los Angeles Deputy City Attorney. He is a founding member of the City Attorney's Police Litigation Section, and for the past twelve years has dedicated his practice to the representation and defense of Los Angeles Police Officers in civil lawsuits alleging police misconduct, including excessive force. He has tried police misconduct cases in both state and federal courts, and has been involved in all phases of police litigation.

Bill Everett is the Litigation Management Attorney for the League of Minnesota Cities. Prior to his work with the League of Cities, Bill worked as a state and municipal peace officer, an attorney in private practice and has taught courses at both the Post-Secondary and Graduate levels.

Mr. Everett received a Bachelor of Science degree in Law Enforcement, Magna Cum Laude, from Minnesota State University at Mankato in 1986. He received a Juris Doctor degree, Magna Cum Laude, from the William Mitchell College of Law in 1990. Mr. Everett worked as a police officer for the City of Albert Lea, a police Sergeant for the City of Annandale, and as a Major with the Minnesota Department of Natural Resources Law Enforcement Division.

Mr. Everett’s legal practice included the representation of Minnesota cities and counties in state and federal litigation with an emphasis on law enforcement operations. He has been retained extensively by state, county, and local agencies to conduct police training, particularly in the area of use of force. His clients have included the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension, the Minnesota State Patrol, the Minneapolis Police Department, and regional training associations throughout Minnesota.

Dr. Gilmartin is a behavioral scientist specializing in law enforcement and public safety related issues. He is the author of the book Emotional Survival for Law Enforcement: A Guide for Officers and Their Families. He previously spent 20 years working in law enforcement in Arizona where he supervised the Hostage Negotiations Team and the Behavioral Sciences Unit. His work earned him the International Association of Chiefs of Police-Parade Magazine “National Police Officer Citation Award” for contributions during hostage negotiations.

He is guest instructor at the FBI Academy’s Law Enforcement Executive Development Institute (LEEDS, NEI and EDI) and at the DEA Academy Drug Unit Commanders Academy as well as an instructor at the Massachusetts Police Leadership Institute and Sam Houston State University’s Law Enforcement Management Institute of Texas. He is retained as a consultant to several Federal agency national critical incident response teams and is a charter member of the IACP’s Psychological Services Section and former vice-president of the Society of Police and Criminal Psychology. The Department of Justice, FBI, and International Association of Chiefs of Police have published his work.

He holds a doctoral degree in Clinical Psychology from the University of Arizona and is a licensed psychologist in the State of Arizona. He is a veteran of the U.S. Marine Corps and resides in Tucson, Arizona and Portland, Oregon.

He presently maintains a consulting relationship with public safety and law enforcement agencies nationally in the U.S. and Canada.

David Grossi is a retired Lieutenant and Commander of Firearms/Force Training from upstate New York. During his 20+ years in professional law enforcement, Mr. Grossi served as a patrol officer, undercover narcotics investigator, detective, sergeant, lieutenant and training commander.

He has trained over 165,000 federal, state and local law enforcement officers from all 50 states and 16 foreign countries on the proper use of force. He has lectured and taught in 49 states and throughout Canada. His students have included officers, special agents and instructors from the FBI Academy, the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center, the DEA, the CIA, the ATF, the US Marshall’s Service, the US Customs Service, New Scotland Yard in England and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.

His letters of commendation and awards number over 20. They include Police Officer of the Year, District Attorneys Awards for Homicide and Organized Crime Investigations, and a Heroism Citation from the Rochester (NY) Chamber of Commerce. He was also awarded the Special Award of Honor from the International Narcotics Enforcement Officers Association for his work in undercover narcotics investigations and has received numerous awards for excellence in training.

He holds a bachelor’s degree in Community and Human Resources (with a major in Police Administration) from the State University of New York and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. He is combat veteran of Vietnam where he served with the USAF Rangers before becoming a police officer.

He is a court-certified expert in police use of force and has testified extensively in both the US and Canada, in both state and federal courts (civil and criminal) on the issues of deadly force. He has authored over 150 articles and numerous book chapters on the issues of deadly force, firearms tactics/training, police pursuits, management and supervision, police stress, perceptual distortions, and narcotics law enforcement.

He is one of only a handful of judicially-recognized police procedures experts who possess police instructor credentials in virtually every force discipline including firearms (handgun and long gun), defensive tactics, impact weapons, chemical agents, electronic weapons (Taser), weapon retention skills, edged weapons defense/knife tactics, and handcuffing control and restraint systems. He was the first police trainer in the world to receive the Certified Law Enforcement Trainer designation through the American Society of Law Enforcement Trainers.

He was an edged weapon consultant to Los Angeles ADA Marcia Clark in the OJ Simpson case, and also to the defense in the Rodney King case on impact weapon issues. He was also a police tactics expert for the Denver (CO) affiliate of NBC-TV in the Columbine (Littleton, Colorado) High School incident.

He resides and maintains offices in both Naples, Florida and Denver, Colorado where he has worked as an adjunct faculty member in the Criminal Justice Departments of several colleges.

Dr. Philip Hayden, Ed.D., is a retired Supervisory Special Agent of the FBI. Dr. Hayden has been a court-certified expert witness in the areas of Use of Force, Tactics, and Mental Mindset during high risk situations since 1999. The primary focus of Dr. Hayden is to provide investigative consulting and testimony regarding Use of Force and Tactics during high-risk situations.

Dr. Hayden has a background and level of expertise unlike anyone else in the Use of Force/Special Tactics expert witness arena. As a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation in multiple major metropolitan areas, Dr. Hayden participated in several hundred arrests of violent criminals. Additionally, Dr. Hayden has been certified by the FBI as an instructor in tactical concepts for law enforcement officers; defensive tactics; special weapons and tactics (SWAT); crisis management; firearms; sniper; rappelling; helicopter tactical operations; hostage negotiations; bomb investigations; and pilot-in-command for fixed-winged aircrafts.

Dr. Hayden also has been a Supervisory Special Agent for the FBI Academy. For more than 15 years he carried out training and instruction for the Law Enforcement Training for Safety and Survival Sub-Unit as a tactical instructor for new agent training. He has also written dozens of articles and instruction manuals for the FBI, such as the FBI Deadly Force Policy for Federal Violent Crimes Task Forces; How to Conduct High-Risk Arrests; and Safe Apprehension of Dangerous Criminals.

In addition to being recognized for his service by the FBI, Dr. Hayden is the recipient of the Purple Heart, Vietnamese Cross of Gallantry, Conspicuous Service Cross, Army Commendation for Valor, Bronze Star for Valor, and the Distinguished Service Cross. He retired from the U.S. Army with the rank of Captain, achieving that rank in four years.

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Since 1988 most of John Hoag's practice is the representation of public safety labor organizations. He also handles some wage and hour litigation. John has tried numerous disciplinary labor arbitration cases, including the infamous "zipper cases" which caused the Oregon Legislature in 1995 to enact ORS 243.706, which prohibits arbitrators from setting aside discipline based on sexual misconduct, unjustified use of physical force, etc.

John began his legal career working for Spokane County Legal Aid, Multnomah and Lane County District Attorneys, Lane County Public Defenders and then from 1980-88, was an Assistant County Counsel for Lane County, defending the County in litigation and advising the County on labor and employment issues.

He is a graduate of Earlham College and the University of Texas College of Law and is now semi retired and spends almost half of each year in Alaska, but returns to negotiate contracts in the fall.

Ed Janke is an Associate Dean of Public Safety with Northeast Wisconsin Technical College (NWTC) in Green Bay, Wisconsin. The staff in Public Safety are leaders in implementing technology in the criminal justice learning environment and have been extremely proactive in the areas of simulation and scenario-based law enforcement training.

Mr. Janke has over 24 years of law enforcement service. He has held progressive management positions and has 20 years of tactical and explosives-related experience, serving as an operator, team leader and commander. He retired from the Brown County Sheriff's Department (WI) as the Chief Deputy. He holds an M.S. in Leadership and Organizational Design and is a graduate of the FBI National Academy. Mr. Janke assisted in authoring several of the training manuals for the State of Wisconsin. Ed has over 10 years of experience with protective services and executive protection including international operations. He instructs in the areas of Weapons, Vehicles, SWAT, Defense and Arrest tactics as well as terrorism-related topics. Mr. Janke serves as a management consultant and also consults in security related topics.

Gary T. Klugiewicz is the director of ACMi® Systems, and a member of the Team One Network that in cooperation with the Northwest Wisconsin Technical College provides defensive tactics, firearms, and tactical training throughout the United States. He is retired from the Milwaukee County Sheriff's Department after 25 years of service where he was promoted to the rank of captain. Gary has a background in Knockdown Karate where he won national championships and fought several times in Japan. He brought this high impact intensity to law enforcement training. Gary's name has become synonymous with the development of safe but realistic, intense, dynamic simulation training.

As former Street Survival Seminar instructor and nationally known defensive tactics instructor, Gary has impacted literally 100,000's of law enforcement officers. His training is an officer survival program in action. Gary is the developer of the Active Countermeasures System of Unarmed Blocking and Striking Techniques that is the cornerstone of High Level Control Tactics.

He has developed programs for police, corrections, mental health, security, and military personnel. Gary's team tactics training for SWAT, CERT, and Crowd Management Teams are among the best in the world. His instructor training programs stress adult learning, sub-skill development, guided discovery, decision making simulation scenarios, and positive group debriefing techniques.

Even more importantly, as a righteous police officer use-or-force defense expert, Gary has defended scores of officers in legal proceedings.

Greg Meyer retired from the Los Angeles Police Department after 30 years of police service in April 2006, including eight years as a commanding officer. His final assignment was as a captain at the Los Angeles Police Academy. Greg is a member of the National Advisory Board of the Force Science Research Center. He is a member of the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) and the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). He holds the Certified Litigation Specialist credential of the Americans for Effective Law Enforcement (AELE), and is a member of the AELE seminar faculty for lethal and nonlethal weapons issues. He is chairman of the Training Seminars Committee of the Peace Officers Association of Los Angeles County (POALAC); and he serves on the advisory board for "POLICE" magazine.

Greg has served as a use of force expert witness in his official capacity for the Los Angeles City Attorney and Los Angeles District Attorney, as well as privately across the United States. He specializes in risk-management issues including policy, training, equipment, tactics, supervision and review processes, with a focus on injury reduction during lethal and nonlethal encounters. He was an expert witness during the Rodney King federal civil trial, and he was a consultant for the defense during the sentencing phase of the criminal trial.

He is the recipient of Defensive Tactics Newsletter's leadership award for his research in the nonlethal weapons field.

Scott Robert Olson is Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs at Minnesota State University, Mankato. Prior to serving in this role, he was Dean of the College Communication at Ball State University, and before that Associate Dean of Arts and Sciences and Professor of Communication at Central Connecticut State University.

His scholarship concerns the formation of cultural identity in an era of global media. He is the author of two books, twenty book chapters, and fifteen scholarly journal articles. His most recent book is Hollywood Planet: Global Media and the Competitive Advantage of Narrative Transparency (1999, Lawrence Erlbaum Publishers). His articles have appeared in The Journal of Communication, The Journal of Film and Video, Journal of Promotion Management, Studies in Media and Information Literacy Education, Feedback: Journal of the Broadcast Education Association and Critical Studies in Media Communication.

He co-authored a successful $20 million grant from the Lilly Endowment to study digital media content and design. He has more than $1 million in other grant awards, including one from the U.S. Agency for International Development through which he was able to establish the first School of Communication in Poland. Other grants have been from NSF, the Knight Foundation, the U.S. Department of State, the Connecticut Department of Education, the George and Francis Ball Foundation, and others.

He was cofounder of the Teaching Excellence Forum at Central Connecticut and helped Ball State adopt a “Scholarship of Teaching” model. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Digital Media and Arts Association, the Global Media Studies Center, the Center for Survey Research and Analysis Journalism Project, and the Ball Memorial Hospital Cancer Education Project.

His Ph.D. is from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Co-founder and president (1979-1999) of Calibre Press, Inc., then the leading independent producer of training materials for law enforcement personnel, serving agencies and individual officers in more than 50 countries.

Author of three award-winning textbooks concerned with tactics by which officers can protect themselves physically, legally and emotionally when dealing with high-risk individuals and situations. These books are: Street Survival: Tactics for Armed Encounters; The Tactical Edge: Surviving High-Risk Patrol; and Tactics for Criminal Patrol: Vehicle Stops, Drug Discovery and Officer Survival.

These books, with more than 300,000 copies in circulation, are widely used as training texts in college criminal justice courses and law enforcement training academies. Two have been cited before the U.S. Supreme Court as representing the standard by which modern, responsible law enforcement training should be judged.

Associate producer of half a dozen award-winning instructional video productions for law enforcement, including: Deadly Force Decisions I & II, Surviving Edged Weapons, Hostage Officer Survival and Ultimate Survivors. These are believed to be the bestselling training videos ever produced for law enforcement.

Co-founder, co-producer, instructor, and scriptwriter for the Street Survival Seminar, a three-day traveling training program for law enforcement personnel. This program has trained more than 200,000 municipal, county, state, federal and special law enforcement officers in appearances throughout the U.S. and Canada, attracting attendees from as far away as Russia, England and Japan.

Co-founder, editor, and writer of the first electronic newsletter for law enforcement, the Street Survival Newsline, subscribed to by more than 65,000 officers and agencies in 28 countries.

Recipient of the O.W. Wilson Award for outstanding contributions to law enforcement, from the American Criminal Justice Assn. (1993) and the American Police Hall of Fame Honor Award for distinguished achievement in public service (1993).

Mr. Ward is an authority on forensic high-speed photography, video imaging and computer animation, frequently testifies as biomechanics expert in police cases.

Mr. Ward has experience in utilizing high magnification techniques for photo documentation. He supervises video production and post-production. Mr. Ward also leads the company’s audio/video editing facilities and dark room. He is knowledgeable in the use of a wide range of video equipment, including professional VTRs, high-speed video and film systems, character generators, video switchers and editing controllers. He currently serves on Biodynamics Engineering, Inc. Board of Directors.

Creates various 2-D and 3-D computer generated animations for litigation. Provides expert witness testimony with respect to these animations.

Courtesy of www.biomechanics.com