TCD: Dr. Gennaro "Gerry" Vito, University of Louisville, Ep 97, Southern Police Institute

03/14/23 • 38 min

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Dr. Gennaro F. Vito is a scholar, facilitator, author, professor, and award-winning criminologist at the University of Louisville. He also serves as a faculty member in the Administrative Officer’s Course at the Southern Police Institute where he offers a course on criminal justice leadership (CJ 578).
He holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration from The Ohio State University. Active in professional organizations, he is a Past President, Fellow, and recipient of the Bruce Smith Award (2012) of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences and the Outstanding Service Award, Police Section, Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He served as the editor of The American Journal of Criminal Justice (1987-1991). He is recognized as one of the “Top 25 Criminal Justice Professors” by the Forensic Colleges as ranked by the U.S. News & World Report’s criminology ratings. He has published over 100 professional, refereed journal articles and 18 book chapters.
He has published on capital sentencing, police consolidation, police leadership, police traffic stops, policing strategies for drug problems in public housing, attitudes toward capital punishment, and the effectiveness of criminal justice programs, such as drug elimination programs, drug courts, and drug testing of probationers and parolees. He is the co-author of eleven textbooks in criminal justice and criminology including Police Leadership and Administration: A 21st Century Strategic Approach (Elsevier, 2019), Organizational Behavior and Management (Prentice Hall, 2020) and Criminology: Theory, Research, and Practice (Jones & Bartlett, 2021).

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TCD: Mike Scott, Arizona State University, Ep 96, Director Center for Problem Oriented Policing,

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Mike Scott is a lawyer, former police chief, researcher and professor, and training facilitator.
Michael S. Scott is the director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing and a clinical professor in the School of Criminology & Criminal Justice at Arizona State University. He chairs the judging committee for the Herman Goldstein Award for Excellence in Problem-Oriented Policing. He leads the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing (POP) at ASU.
Scott was formerly a clinical professor at the University of Wisconsin Law School. He served as the first chief of police in Lauderhill, Florida; special assistant to the chief of St. Louis, Missouri Metropolitan Police Department; director of administration of the Fort Pierce, Florida, Police Department; legal assistant to the police commissioner of the New York City Police Department; and a police officer in the Madison, Wisconsin, Police Department.
He was a senior researcher at the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF) in Washington, D.C. In 1996, he received PERF's Gary P. Hayes Award for innovation and leadership in policing.
Scott holds a law degree from Harvard Law School and a bachelor’s degree from the University of Wisconsin–Madison.
We talked about the history of POP, the evolution of problem-oriented policing, and the state of policing today. A wide-ranging and illuminating chat with Mike Scott on The CopDoc Podcast.

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TCD: Chief Ruben Quesada, Ed.D., Swampscott Police, Ep 98

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Chief Ruben Quesada served most of his policing career in Arizona. Starting with the Glendale Police, he rose through the ranks in the Mesa, AZ Police, retiring as a Police Commander. He moved from the desert to New England and served as the Deputy Chief of the Northern Essex Community College Police, until his appointment as Chief of the Swampscott, MA Police Department. Dr. Quesada earned his doctorate and has served as an adjunct instructor at several institutions of higher education.