Issues in Policing and Requisite Challenges.: A Collection of Thoughts & Reflections (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781540375841)

Richard C. Lumb, Ph.D., Florida State University. He is an Associate Professor and Chair Emeritus, Department of Criminal Justice, State University of New York at Brockport. He completed twenty-five years in higher education that includes Chairman of the Department of Criminal Justice and the Western North Carolina "Basic Law Enforcement Training Program" and Director Law Enforcement Training and 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). 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 (U.S. Department of Justice and the COPS Office funded) and other projects. The CMPD, CICP project provided national police and sheriff agencies with training in the use of Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to analyze crime and disorder, create sustainable community capacity building, develop citizen partnerships to analyze and determine sustainable solutions to crime, disorder and quality of life issues. This was a major re-engineering of police services project. His post-retirement adjunct faculty includes the University of Maine at Augusta, Justice Studies; the University of Massachusetts at Lowell, Department of Criminal Justice and Criminology; and the University of Massachusetts at Boston, the Center for Rebuilding Sustainable Communities after Disasters. Prior to his academic career, he completed twenty-four years in policing, including Maine State Police and Chief of Police in two communities. He remains active in teaching, working with agencies, sustainable community capacity building, resilience building, and problem solving using tools with long-standing success. He has several publications and books in print.