Greg Meyer

Note: This expert is an AELE Certified Litigation Specialist

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) Master’s 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 claimant’s 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” O’Linn, 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 Change—where we’ve been, where we’re at, where we’re 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)

 

• “LAPD’s 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 Agency’s 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 Area’s “Predators to Prison” Program (1996)
• Defensive Tactics Newsletter’s Leadership Award to recognize commitment and contributions to research in training & tactics (1994)
• LAPD’s “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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