AELE Expert Witness/Litigation Consultant Listing
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Note: 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:

(2) Degrees and relevant special training:

        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:

(4) Retainer information:


(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] 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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