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William Rousseau
Art Hushen
Rod Reder
Tom Hushen
Detective Bob Sheehan
Theresa Adams
Dr. Lorie Fridell
Jerrold G. Antoon

William Rousseau is the Vice President of the National Institute of Crime Prevention. Bill recently retired from the Tampa Police Department as a Detective Sergeant after 29 years of service. He was the department's Domestic Violence Coordinator for 7 years. Bill created and supervised the department's Family Violence - Sex Crimes Unit. Mr. Rousseau is recognized nationwide as a Domestic Violence teacher and expert. He has conducted training for the United States Army, Florida State University, the Florida Governor's Task Force on Domestic Violence, the Interdisciplinary Rape Science Training Institute, the University of South Florida, and many more. Bill is the recent Past Chairperson of the Hillsborough County Domestic Violence Fatality Review Team. He was also the Chairperson for the Hillsborough County Domestic Violence Council. He holds a Bachelors Degree in Speech from the University of South Florida, in Tampa..

Art Hushen is the President of the National Institute of Crime Prevention.

Art was assigned to the Tampa Police Department's Special Operations Bureau / Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design (CPTED) Section. Art was instrumental in the creation of the Department's CPTED Unit and Tampa's first CPTED Ordinance for the Westshore Business District, which is the largest Business District in Florida. He implemented the CPTED review process for the Tampa Parks Department Greenways and Trails Master Plan, which include over 80 miles of trails. He worked with the Tampa Housing Authority on their Hope VI program and was part of the task force implementing the design guidelines. He completed the CPTED review process for the West Tampa Overlay District and the Tampa Lighting Initiative. Art also completed the City of Tampa's Downtown Security Guideline requirements under the Mayor of Tampa's Downtown Initiative. He implemented crime prevention strategies into security and design reviews of commercial buildings, schools, multi family housing, and residential communities. Art implemented similar strategies in zoning ordinances, land use development, public transportation, and roadway design through traffic calming. He has conducted numerous CPTED site reviews and security assessments for the City of Tampa as well as for the National Institute of Crime Prevention.

Art received his Crime Prevention Practitioner Certification and CPTED Designation through the Florida Crime Prevention Training Institute where he assisted in the creation of the Advanced CPTED program and the State standards for the CPTED Designation. He is an instructor for the Florida Attorney General's Office specializing in Basic and Advanced CPTED and CPTED in Schools. He is also an Adjunct Instructor for Fox Valley Technical College specializing in CPTED. Art is recognized as a Crime Prevention Specialist through the International Society of Crime Prevention Practitioners and is a graduate of the National Crime Prevention Institute, Fox Valley College, and the American Crime Prevention Institute in both Basic and Advanced CPTED. Art holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Criminology from the University of South Florida.

Art is the Past Chairman of the Florida CPTED Network (FCN), Past Board Member of the International CPTED Association (ICA), and Past President of the Sun Coast Crime Prevention Association. He is a member of the American Planning Association (APA), the South Carolina Planning Association, and the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS). He was awarded the Sun Coast Crime Prevention Association Crime Prevention Practitioner of the Year for 2000. He retired from the Tampa Police Department in 2006.

Rod Reder is the vice president of the National Institute of Crime Prevention. He served with the Hillsborough County Sheriff's Office in Tampa, Florida for 29 years. He retired in 2006 as a Uniform Deputy Commander. Rod was the Domestic Violence Coordinator for the Sheriff's Office for seven years. He has conducted training for Florida State University, the University of South Florida and the U.S. Army. He was also part of a training team that established the first domestic violence training program for police in Almaty, Kazakhstan.

Rod is recognized nationwide as a teacher, lecturer and expert in the field of domestic and sexual violence. He has received numerous awards, such as the Florida Governor's "Peace At Home" award. As a member of the Florida Governor’s Domestic Violence Task Force he helped to write many of Florida’s domestic violence statutes. He has appeared as an expert on the NBC Today Show, MSNBC News, Court TV and Inside Edition. Rod is a graduate of the 109th Session of the Southern Police Institute's Administrative Officer's Course in Louisville, Kentucky. He also holds a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology from the University of South Florida.

Tom Hushen currently serves as the Emergency Management Coordinator and County Fire Marshall for Cameron County, Texas, reporting to the county's highest elected official. In his current positions, Tom has worked to improve the security of county buildings and develop a countywide, public safety communications system. He has led efforts to include small cities and rural communities in regional emergency plans, and has overseen the formation of hazardous response teams at each end of the county.

During his fifteen-year career with the City of Harlingen, Texas Police Department, Tom was responsible for a number of programs and initiatives, including work as a Drug Abuse Resistance Education (DARE) officer and development of security plans for the local school district. He served as an instructor at the Lower Rio Grande Valley Regional Police Academy, teaching cadets Community Oriented Police strategies.

A long-time advocate of community policing, Tom served as the director of the Citizens Police Academy and was the supervisor of the Community Oriented Police Division. He used CPTED strategies in the revitalization of the Downtown "Placita" district, advised city council on the construction of city ordinances including the city's traffic flow regulation, and initiated a revitalization of the neighborhood watch program.

Tom retired from the Harlingen Police Department as a lieutenant, having attained recognition as a Master Peace Officer. He continues to serve as an instructor for the Texas Commission on Law Enforcement Officer Standards and Education (TCLEOSE).

Detective Bob Sheehan (ret) was a member of the Tampa Police Department for 24 years. Detective Sheehan worked in the departments Sex Crimes Family Violence Unit and was a member of the FBI's Innocent Images Task Force that focuses on Child Exploitation on the Internet. Bob has conducted training for the FBI, U.S. Attorney's Office, Scotland Yard, Florida Department of Law Enforcement, and many others. The Federal Court in the Middle District of Florida recognizes Bob as an expert witness in child exploitation and computer investigations. Detective Sheehan has a Master of Business Administration from Saint Leo University and expects to complete his Doctorate Degree in 2005. He is an adjunct Professor for Saint Leo University and the University of Tampa.

Theresa Adams is currently assigned to the Simi Valley Police Department’s CPTED Unit where she has assisted with the development of guidelines for Simi Valley ’s Crime Free Multi-Housing Program, served on the Development Code rewrite committee, and drafted citywide CPTED guidelines for developers. Theresa also served as the Police Department’s CPTED liaison to a 1.3 million square foot regional mixed-use town center development in Simi Valley . Dedicated on October 27, 2005 it is the first new retail mall district to be built in Ventura County in over 20 years. She conducts Basic CPTED training for the National Institutive of Crime Prevention, Crime Prevention & CPTED training at the Ventura County Police Explorer Academy , and a CPTED overview for the Citizens Academy .

With over twenty years of law enforcement experience she has held positions at the Ventura Police Department from 1981 to 1986 and at the Simi Valley Police Department from 1991 to 2006. She attended the Ventura County Police and Sheriff’s Reserve Officer Academy in 1993 and was employed by Simi Valley Police Department as a Reserve Police Officer from 1993 to 2001. During her time as a Reserve Police Officer Theresa worked in Patrol and Special Operations. From 1995 to 1996 she was on staff at the Ventura County Police and Sheriff’s Reserve Officers Academy as a Tactical Officer where she continues to assist as an evaluator/proctor during Critical Incidents Training. From 1997 to 1999 Theresa instructed Drug Abuse and Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) curriculum at local schools. In 1998 Theresa received the Reserve Officer of the Year Award.

Theresa received her training and certification for Basic Reserve Police Officer, Crime Analysis, Crime Prevention and CPTED through the California Peace Officers Standards and Training (P.O.S.T.). She received her Basic & Advanced CPTED as well as Train-the-Trainer Certification through the National Institute of Crime Prevention (NICP). Theresa also received her Crime Free Multi-Housing (CFMH) Train-the-Trainer Certification through Mesa , Arizona Police Department.

Theresa is a member of the International CPTED Association (ICA), California Crime Prevention Officers Association (CCPOA), California CPTED Association (CCA), Southern California Mall Officers Association, Past Director of CCPOA Region 4 ( San Luis Obispo , Santa Barbara & Ventura Counties), CCPOA 2001 Annual State Conference Chairman, and past Member of the California Crime Analysts Association (CCAA). She is a member of the American Planning Association (APA), the California Planning Association, the American Society for Industrial Security (ASIS), and the Local Government Commission (LGC). She was awarded the CCPOA Crime Prevention Practitioner of the Year for 2001.

Dr. Lorie Fridell, former Director of Research at the Police Executive Research Forum (PERF), is a national expert on racial profiling, or what she terms “racially biased policing.” She has authored and co-authored a number of chapters and books on the topic. While at PERF she co-authored with colleagues Racially Biased Policing: A Principled Response, the seminal work guiding law enforcement executives on how to respond to the issues of racially biased policing and the perceptions of its practice. Concerned about the very high expectations that stakeholders had developed for data collected on police stops, she wrote By the Numbers: A Guide for Analyzing Race Data for Vehicle Stops and the companion book, Understanding Race Data from Vehicle Stops: A Stakeholders’ Guide.
Dr. Fridell is a frequent keynote speaker at conferences on racial profiling and has been invited on a number of occasions to speak with various chiefs/sheriffs associations around the country. She is working with several agencies, including the Chicago Police Department, to implement a comprehensive response to racially biased policing and the perceptions of its practice. She testified before a subcommittee of the Senate Judiciary Committee on the topic. Dr. Fridell is currently on faculty with the Department of Criminology at the University of South Florida. She completed both her Master’s degree and Ph.D. in Social Ecology at the University of California, Irvine.

Jerrold G. Antoon, CPP, RL, ICPS

For the past 25 years Mr. Antoon has served in the Criminal Justice Division at Fox Valley Technical College, Appleton, Wisconsin. In that capacity he instructs CJ courses and coordinates all Security and Crime Prevention training and education. Mr. Antoon is also principal of Antoon Security Consultants, Inc., a firm specializing in risk management, vulnerability surveys, security audits of business entities, specialized training, and expert witness testimony. In his training company, Law Enforcement Lock Pick Training (www.LElockpicking.com), Mr. Antoon conducts lock manipulation workshops for law enforcement and military units. Prior to his position at the college Mr. Antoon was a police officer with LAPD for six years, three years in Appleton, Wisconsin, and retired in 2007 as a part time Crime Prevention officer in Combined Locks, Wisconsin. He holds a B.S. in Criminal Justice and an M.S. in Management.

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