2010 Keynote Presentation
James L. Grayson, CPP, Senior Security Consultant, Hughes Associates, Inc.
Tuesday, March 30
Can Security Pay For Itself?
Do you look upon security expenditures as “red ink”—draining resources from your primary mission? This presentation may change your outlook. A well crafted security plan can actually produce large returns on your investment. This presentation will provide a new way of looking at security and the often overlooked benefits that these programs can produce.
Bio:
Jim Grayson is a Senior Security Consultant with Hughes Associates, Inc. His career spans over 35 years in law enforcement and security consulting. He worked for UCLA on a workplace violence study involving hospitals, schools and small retail environments and consulted with NIOSH on a retail violence prevention study. His diverse project experience includes schools, universities, hospitals, municipal buildings, high-rise structures and downtown revitalization projects. Jim holds a degree in criminal justice and a “CPP” security management credential from ASIS. He is a nationally recognized speaker and trainer on a wide range of security topics.
Dr. Bill Lewinski, Co-Founder and Executive Director, Force Science Institute
Wednesday, March 31
New Force Science Findings into the Human Dynamics of Deadly Force and
Other High Stress Encounters
Through ground-breaking research into the human dynamics involved in complex, rapidly unfolding force encounters, the Force Science Institute, founded and directed by Dr. Bill Lewinski, has had a profound impact on law enforcement. During his presentation, Dr. Lewinski will discuss the Institute's revolutionary findings relative to human performance under extreme stress, action/reaction timing, visual and auditory anomalies that surface during life-threatening scenarios, memory and recall challenges and other issues that can have a tremendous impact on the thoroughness and accuracy of investigations into officer-involved shootings and other force encounters.
Bio:
Dr. Bill Lewinski is the co-founder and executive director of The Force Science Institute, which was launched in June 2004 and is headquartered in Mankato, Minnesota. He also runs the Force Science Research Center, based at the University of Minnesota, Mankato and directed by the Institute. The mission of the Institute and the Research Center is to scientifically determine and fully understand the true dynamics of force encounters – what actually happens between officers and offenders in fluid, rapidly unfolding, life-or-death confrontations.
Dr. Lewinski has a Ph.D. in police psychology, a subject he has studied for more than three decades. He is a full professor in the Law Enforcement Program at Minnesota State University, Mankato where until recently he taught full-time for more than two decades.
He has interviewed more than 1,000 officers who have been involved in deadly force incidents and he has conducted groundbreaking research that sheds light on the little understood and often ignored realities of deadly force encounters. This information has saved officers’ lives on the street and has prevented some from going to prison when they were wrongly accused of criminally using deadly force.
Force Science Institute findings combined with Dr. Lewinski’s expert courtroom testimony have made a dramatic impact on some of the highest profile use-of-force cases in the U.S. and the United Kingdom. His research has been published in numerous national law enforcement publications, Web sites and e-newsletters. Additionally, the work for The Force Science Institute is frequently cited in law enforcement training articles and classes worldwide.