Arkansas' First State Police Recruit Training School (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781986252027)

Steven A. Coppinger, a Californian by birth but a life-long resident of Arkansas, is a 23-year-veteran of the Arkansas State Police. Holding the rank of Captain, he is currently assigned to the Special Projects Office at Headquarters in Little Rock. Coppinger earned his Master of Science degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Cincinnati in 2009, and his Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Arkansas in Fayetteville in 1988. He is also a 2013 graduate of the Fusion Center Leaders Program (FCLP-13-01) from the Naval Postgraduate School's Center for Homeland Defense and Security in Monterey, California; and a 2005 graduate of Northwestern University's Center for Public Safety School of Police Staff and Command (SPSC) Class #215. Coppinger has also served as an adjunct professor of criminal justice at the University of Arkansas at Fort Smith, the Northwest Arkansas and Little Rock campuses of the University of Phoenix, Arkansas State University at Beebe, and Southern New Hampshire University. He has also guest lectured at the Criminal Justice Institute in Little Rock, the Black River Technical College Law Enforcement Training Academy in Pocahontas, and at the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy (ALETA) in Northwest Arkansas. Coppinger and his wife, Peppi, and their two sons, Brent and Max, reside in Fayetteville, Arkansas.