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This expert is an AELE Certified Litigation Specialist
Greg Meyer
Captain, Los
Angeles Police Academy (Ret. 5-31-06)
Current address
and affiliation:
Consultant,
self-employed Analysis, Prevention, Litigation Support
Los Angeles, CA
Tel. (562)
715-7497
E-mail: gregmeyer@earthlink.net
Internet
Website: http://home.earthlink.net/~gregmeyer/
1) Relevant prior and part-time
employment, with dates:
- Police Tactics and Procedures
Consultant (Author, Lecturer, Trainer, Expert Witness) specializing in
policy, training, equipment, tactics, supervision, review processes, risk
management and injury reduction (self-employed, 1989 - present)
- Los Angeles Police Department
(Officer, Detective, Sergeant, Lieutenant, Captain) including assignments
in patrol, detectives, vice, traffic, planning and research, tactical
planning, administration, training (1978 - 2006)
- Long Beach Police Department,
Patrol Officer (1977-78)
- Los Angeles Police Department,
Reserve Officer (1976-77; and 2006 - 2012)
(2) Degrees and relevant special
training:
- Certified Force Science Analyst,
Force Science Institute (2009)
- Instructor, Advanced Taser M-26 and
X-26 (5 times since 2001)
- M.S. - Public Administration, Cal.
State Los Angeles (1991) Masters Thesis: Nonlethal Weapons vs.
Conventional Police Tactics: The Los Angeles Police Department Experience
- Teaching Credential (Police
Science), State of California (1981 - Lifetime)
- California Peace Officer Standards
and Training (P.O.S.T.) Commission (Basic, Intermediate, Advanced,
Supervisory, and Management Certificates)
- Los Angeles Police Department:
- Basic Detective School
- Supervisory Development Course
- Juvenile Procedures School
- Vice School
- Supervisory Press Relations
Training
- Homicide School
- Watch Commander School
- West Point Leadership and Command
Program
- Command Development Course
- California P.O.S.T. Management
Course
- Community-Police Problem Solving
Seminar
- Street Survival Seminar
- Suicide By Cop - 8 hours,
sponsored by the Peace Officers Association of Los Angeles County
Leadership
in the 21st Century (two years, eight sessions per year, seminar course jointly
developed and presented for LAPD management by the University of California at
Los Angeles, the University of Southern California, Pepperdine University, and
Claremont University).
(3) Other professional activities, etc:
- Adjunct member, of LAPD Tactics
Training Review Committee (2013 present)
- Leader, LAPD Use-of-Force Best
Practices Strategic Planning Work Group, responsible for direction and
coordination of internal subcommittees and outside consultants examining
policy, training, equipment, tactics, post-incident processes (2005-2006;)
- Appointed as the Law Enforcement
and Policing Practices Subject Matter Expert in support of the US
Department of Homeland Security Headquarters Office for Civil Rights and
Civil Liberties, to conduct independent reviews of selected public
complaint and use of force incidents by the Border Patrol, ICE, TSA,
Secret Service, and other DHS components; rewrite use of force policy;
presentation to DHS headquarters management on use-of-force issues. (2015 -2017)
- Chairman, Peace Officers
Association of Los Angeles County (POALAC)s Training Seminar Committee
(2003-2012); committee member and seminar producer (2012-present); POALAC
board member (2005-present)
- Faculty, AELE seminar on Lethal and
Less-Lethal Force (2006-2013)
- Numerous other involvements listed
on c.v.
(4) Retainer information:
- Appx. number of times retained by
claimants counsel: 30
- Appx. number of times retained by
civil defense counsel: 275
- Appx. number of times retained by
criminal prosecutors: 11
- Appx. number of times retained by
criminal defense counsel: 8
(5)
Names, addresses and telephone numbers of attorneys who may be contacted as
references:
Michael P.
Stone, Esq. and Muna Busailah, Esq
Stone-Busailah, LLP
200 E. Del Mar, S-350
Pasadena, CA, 91105
(626) 683-5600
Daniel K.
Spradlin, Esq.,
Woodruff Spradlin & Smart,
555 Anton Boulevard, Ste 1200
Costa Mesa, CA
92626
(714) 558-7000
Eugene P.
Ramirez, Esq. and Mildred K. Missy OLinn, Esq.,
Manning Marder Kass Ellrod & Ramirez, LLP
801 South Figueroa Street, 15th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90017
(213) 624-6900
(6) Publications that contain your paid
advertisement (since 1996):
None
(7) Usual and customary fee:
$5,000 retainer for preliminary review
and case assessment up to 8 hours; $450 per hour for document review, meetings,
reports, depositions; plus customary travel, per diem; $3,000 per day or part
day in court or hearing; plus time-zone-based flat fees per round-trip outside
California.
(8) Areas of Expertise and Experience:
Note - Letter codes used in front of the
subject mean:
- [ T ] Testified
in court or at depositions on the subject;
- [ R ] Retained as
a consultant, but have not testified on the subject.
- [ Q ] Qualified
to testify or consult on the subject, but have not served as a paid
consultant.
[T] Agency policies, practices and customs
[T] Batons, flashlights and other impact weapons
[T] Chemical irritants & electrical weapons
[T] Deadly force; shooting avoidance and alternatives
[T] Domestic violence
[R] Employment discrimination (hiring/promotions)
[T] Employee dishonesty investigations
[T] Insufficient or inadequate training
[T] Neck restraints and similar defensive tactics
[T] Positional restraint asphyxia
[T] Prisoner transport, restraints, handcuffing and hog-tying
[T] Racial profiling
[T] Reckless driving
[T] Retention of a known unfit employee or negligent entrustment of a weapon
[T] Search and Seizure
[R] Sexual harassment
[T] Standards for discipline, internal affairs procedures, (in)adequate
punishment
[T] Sudden in-custody deaths, excited delirium
[T] SWAT techniques, hostage & barricade situations
(9) Types of cases you will not accept:
Cases beyond my
expertise.
(10) Other information relevant in
evaluating your services (publications, awards, achievements, special
interests):
PARTIAL BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Contributing
author, tactical lessons learned sections, Blue Lives Matter: In the Line
of Duty, Blue Lives in Jeopardy: When the Badge Becomes the Target,
and Blue Lives Under Fire: Shootouts, a series of books about the
murders of police officers in Los Angeles County
Tactics
and Training: A Half-Century of Changewhere weve been, where were at, where
were going, 5-part article series for POLICE magazine beginning May 2019)
Will
the New Year Be Safer for You?, guest editorial, POLICE Magazine (January
2018)
LAPDs
Use of Force Policy Revision, article, POLICE magazine online (April 2017)
A Revolution in
Use-of-Force Policy and Training? article, POLICE magazine (March 2016)
Nonlethal
weapons revisited: A tactical update, article, PoliceOne.com (September 2015)
Improving
ECW Tactics and Policies, article, POLICE magazine (August 2015)
Body
Cameras Keep It Real, guest editorial, POLICE magazine (June 2015)
Drafting
Your Agencys Body-Worn Camera Policy, lead article, POLICE magazine
body-camera supplement (June 2015)
Digital
Video: Working Under the Microscope, article, POLICE magazine online edition
(June 2015)
Unarmed
Suspects and Un-brained Media, guest editorial, POLICE magazine (October
2014)
Tactics
and science of TASER deployment, article, PoliceOne.com (January 2014)
Lessons
from the Onion Field, article, POLICE Magazine online (March 2013)
Latest
Medical Research on TASERs, article, PoliceOne.com (October 2012)
Video
Evidence Issues: Conflict and Controversy, article, PoliceOne.com (June 2012)
[Dozens of other
published articles since 1981]
HONORS/AWARDS:
- Golden Book of Distinguished
Service, Los Angeles Metropolitan YMCA (2017)
- Career Achievement Award, Peace
Officers Association of Los Angeles County (2012)
- Volunteer of the Year, Peace
Officers Association of Los Angeles County (2006)
- Volunteer of the Year, Los
Angeles Police Historical Society (2000)
- Management Achievement Award
Nominee, LAPD, for leadership of Wilshire Areas Predators to Prison
Program (1996)
- Defensive Tactics Newsletters
Leadership Award to recognize commitment and contributions to research in
training & tactics (1994)
- LAPDs Hollywood Detective of the
Year) (1983)
- Soldier of the Quarter, U.S. Army
Field Station Bad Aibling, Germany (1971)
- Army Commendation Medal, Vietnam
(1969-1970)
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