Common Ground: Bridging Police and Community Collaboration: Lessons from Charlotte, North Carolina and Upstate New York (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781541341364)

Richard C. Lumb is an Associate Professor and Chair Emeritus at SUNY Brockport. Prior to his academic career, he completed twenty-four years in policing, including Maine State Police and Chief of Police in two communities. Additionally, his academic career exceeds three decades as a full-time faculty member that includes Chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice and the Western North Carolina, the "Basic Law Enforcement Training Program," and Director Law Enforcement Training, Continuing Education at Western Piedmont Community College in Morganton, NC. He was an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice and Graduate Program Coordinator at Northern Michigan University and Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte (UNCC) Department of Criminal Justice. As part of his UNCC duties; he served as Director of the Research, Planning and Analysis Bureau for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department, a 2000 person police agency. Those duties included Project Director of the Carolinas Institute for Community Policing (CICP) in North and South Carolina. This was a five-year project with a budget of $3.2 million dollars. Gary J. Metz is an Associate Professor and Coordinator of the Alcoholism and Substance Abuse Studies Program at SUNY Brockport. He has over forty years of experience in the addictions profession as an administrator, counselor and educator. Metz is a certified and active police officer with the Orleans County Sheriff's Office, Criminal Division/Marine Unit. Metz servers as a Regional Statewide Employee Assistance Program Coordinator, New York State Employee Assistance Program. Prior to joining the Health Science Department he served as the Associate Director of the State of New York's Governor's Task Force on Alcoholism Treatment and Criminal Justice, a multi-state agency initiative for addressing the substance abuse needs of the criminal justice and addictions treatment systems. He has been awarded numerous awards for his involvement in substance abuse prevention and programs designed to reduce the incidence and community problems.