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William Rousseau
Rod Reder
Detective Bob Sheehan
Dr. Lorie Fridell

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.

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.

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.

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.

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