- Marc Dann
Dann earned a bachelor of arts degree in 1984 from the University of Michigan and a law degree in 1987 from Case Western Reserve University . Dann practiced law in Youngstown, Ohio, and became active in Democratic Party politics. His disciplinary record as attorney consisted of a single reprimand from the Ohio Supreme Court for handling a 2002 alimony case without proper preparation.
- Bill Jordan
Bill Jordan was an American lawman, Marine and writer. Born William Henry Jordan in 1911 in Louisiana, he served for over 30 years with the U.S. Border Patrol, while also fitting in stints with the Marines during World War II and Korea. He retired from the Marine Reserve as a Colonel. Developed the Jordan or Border Patrol holster. Jordan always favored a double action revolver for law enforcement duties.
- Jeffery Deaver
Jeffery Deaver (born May 6, 1950, in Glen Ellyn, Illinois) is a mystery/crime writer. He originally started working as a journalist, but trained as a lawyer and later practised law. Many of his books tend to promote lateral thinking, particularly his short story collection "Twisted". One of his books, "The Blue Nowhere", features criminal hackers (one using social engineering to commit murder), as well as a law enforcement computer crime unit.
- Jack Osbourne
Jack Joseph Osbourne (born November 8, 1985 in London, England) is the son of music legend Ozzy Osbourne and music manager Sharon Osbourne, which also makes him the grandson of Don Arden. He has 2 older sisters, Aimee Osbourne and Kelly Osbourne, and also two elder half-siblings; Jessica Osbourne and Louis John Osbourne, both of whom are from Ozzy's previous marriage to Thelma Riley. Jack also has an adopted brother Robert Mercato, …
- William Forsythe
William Forsythe (born June 7, 1955) is an American actor. He is frequently cast in "tough guy" roles such as criminals or law enforcement officers. He portrayed organized crime figure Sammy "The Bull" Gravano in the HBO motion picture "Gotti", as well as Al Capone in the 1993 television series "The Untouchables". His films include "Once Upon a Time in America", "Blue Streak", "Raising Arizona", "Extreme Prejudice", …
- Timothy Sullivan
Timothy Daniel "Big Tim" Sullivan (July 23, 1862 - August 31, 1913) was a New York politician who controlled Manhattan's Bowery and Lower East Side districts as a prominent figure within Tammany Hall. Known as "King of the Tenderloin" of the then-vice-district Times Square, he controlled much of the city's criminal activities for much of the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
- Lee P. Brown
Lee P. Brown (born October 4, 1937) had a successful career in law enforcement for almost four decades before being elected as the first African-American mayor of Houston, Texas on December 6, 1997. He served the maximum of three terms from 1998 to 2004 and was succeeded by Bill White. Brown is married to Frances Young (his second wife), a teacher in the Houston Independent School District.
- Kevin Ward
Kevin Ward is an American police officer and politician from the US state of Oklahoma. Ward is the current Secretary of Safety and Security and Commissioner of the Department of Public Safety. Ward began his law enforcement career in 1979 at the Bethany, Oklahoma Police Department. He joined the Department of Public Safety in 1980 serving on the Governor’s Mansion Security before his appointment the Oklahoma Highway Patrol in 1985.
- Roy Hazelwood
Roy Hazelwood is a former FBI profiler of sex crimes and is generally regarded as the pioneer of profiling sexual predators. He worked for the Federal Bureau of Investigation but retired in the Early 90s. In 1980, he developed the distinction between "organized" and "disorganized" murderers, a concept that is still used by law enforcement to help in the apprehension of criminals. He also defined the four categories of rapists, which are power-reassurance, power assertive, …
- Alphonse Bertillon
Alphonse Bertillon (April 23, 1853-February 13, 1914) was a French law enforcement officer and biometrics researcher, who created anthropometry, an identification system based on physical measurements. Anthropometry was the first scientific system police used to identify criminals. Until this time, criminals could only be identified based on eyewitness accounts, which are known to be unreliable. The method was eventually supplanted by fingerprinting.
- Harry Love
Harry Love was the head of California's first law enforcement agency, the California State Rangers, and became famous for allegedly killing the notorious bandit Joaquin Murrieta.
- Isaac Parker
Isaac Charles Parker served as a U.S. District Court judge presiding over the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Arkansas for twenty-one years. He served in that capacity during the most dangerous time for law enforcement during the western expansion. He is remembered today as the legitimate "Hanging Judge" of the American Old West. In 21 years on the bench, Judge Parker tried 13,490 cases, 344 of them were capital crimes.
- Fred Funk
Frederick "Fred" Funk (born June 14, 1956) is an American professional golfer. Funk was born in Takoma Park, Maryland. He graduated from the University of Maryland, College Park in 1980 with a degree in law enforcement. He turned professional in 1981 but worked as a golf coach at his alma mater from 1982 to 1988, not becoming a member of the PGA Tour until 1989. He picked up a number of wins from 1992 onwards, and without quite becoming one of the top stars on the tour, …
- Carl Monday
Carl Monday is an award-winning television reporter for Wkyc-TV in Cleveland, Ohio. Thus far in his career he has won 43 regional Emmy Awards, the 1996 National Headline Award, and was inducted into the Deadspin Hall of Fame as an inaugural member on September 6, 2006. "Carl Monday" was initially an on-air pseudonym, but became his legal name in "1972 [or] 1973." In Northeast Ohio, …
- Chris Madsen
Chris Madsen was a lawman of the Old West who is best known as being one of The Three Guardsmen, the name given to Madsen and two other Deputy US Marshals who were responsible for the apprehension and/or killing of several outlaws of that era. The Three Guardsmen consisted of Madsen, Bill Tilghman, and Heck Thomas. Madsen was born in Denmark. He claimed to have been a soldier in the Danish Army, and later immigrated to the United States in 1876.
- John Varrone
John C. Varrone is the Assistant Commissioner of the Office of Investigations for the US Customs Service. Varrone began his law enforcement career in 1977 as a Customs Patrol Officer in the New York Office of Enforcement where he worked on a variety of airport, seaport and tactical assignments. In 1982, Varrone was promoted to the position of special agent.
- J. D. Frazer
J. D. Frazer (born 1965), pen name Illiad, is the artist and writer of the webcomic "User Friendly". The strip debuted in November, 1997, and is considered to be one of the first major webcomics. It is about a group of characters who work for a fictional Internet Service Provider, and the comic's readership consists mainly of programmers, self-styled geeks, and other technophiles.
- Mike Inay
Michael G. Inay (1944-2000) was the founder of the Filipino martial art of Inayan Eskrima. He studied privately under the tutelage of two great Eskrima masters, Max Sarmiento and Angel Cabales. It was Mike Inay who proposed to Angel Cabales the formation of an organization to preserve and promote the Cabales Serrada style of Eskrima. With Mr. Inay's help, Mr. Cabales formed the first Cabales Serrada association. Mr. Inay also developed a ranking structure for the system.
- John Selman
John Selman (November 16,1839-April 6, 1896) was an outlaw and sometimes lawman of the Old West. He is best known as the man who murdered outlaw John Wesley Hardin.
- Original Night Stalker
Original Night Stalker is the nickname for an unidentified serial killer and rapist who murdered six people in Southern California from 1980 through 1986. His crimes are totally unrelated to Richard Ramirez, a serial killer who was dubbed The Night Stalker, or to the 1970s television show of the same name. Six murders in Ventura, Dana Point and Irvine, CA, have been linked by DNA to this killer. An additional four murders in Goleta, CA, in 1979 and 1981, …
- Peter Garza
Peter Garza has served as a Criminal Investigator for the Cook County State’s Attorney’s Office, of Illinois, since 1993.
- Leslie Coffelt
Leslie William Coffelt, was an American law enforcement officer. Coffelt was a White House police officer killed by Griselio Torresola during an attempt by Puerto Rican nationalists to assassinate U.S. President Harry S. Truman while he was residing in the Blair-Lee House on November 1, 1950. Though mortally wounded by three bullets, Private Coffelt killed Torresola with a single shot to the head.
- James N. Robey
James N. Robey was elected in 1998 and 2002 as County Executive of Howard County, Maryland. He was the Chief of Police for the Howard County Police Department, an agency where he spent 31 years. James N. Robey was born on January 18, 1941, and raised in the small Howard County mill town of Daniels, once located on the banks of the Patapsco River. He attended Howard High School and graduated with the class of 1959.
- Oliver Gaspirtz
Oliver Gaspirtz, born November 1970 in Aachen, Germany, is a cartoonist and web designer who currently resides in New York with his wife Debbie. Gaspirtz emigrated from Germany to the United States in 1993, where he worked as art director for a Manhattan-based German-language newspaper. After the publication of his first book, The Truth About Cinderalla in December of 1993, Gaspirtz turned to single panel gag cartooning.
- Mirko Filipović
Mirko Filipović, often billed as Mirko "Cro Cop", is a Croatian law enforcement officer turned kickboxer turned mixed martial artist. His professional name comes from his membership in the Croatian police's Anti-Terrorist Group, hence "Cro Cop". Filipović has been successful in both K-1 and PRIDE Fighting Championships. On September 10, 2006, he won the PRIDE 2006 Open-weight Grand Prix, and in 2007 began fighting in the Ultimate Fighting Championship.
- Dallas Stoudenmire
Dallas Stoudenmire (1845-1882) was an Old West gunman and lawman, who gained fame for a brief gunfight that was later dubbed the "Four Dead in Five Seconds Gunfight". Although lesser known than many others from the Old West called "gunfighters", his name is becoming more prominent. Hollywood briefly considered a movie of him, but it has yet to materialize.
- Steven Jay Russell
Steven Jay Russell (b. September 14 1957) is a US con artist and impostor who has escaped from prison a number of times. He has been nicknamed "Houdini" and "King Con". His IQ was measured at 169. Russell, born Steven Jay Basham, was adopted at birth by a conservative family in Virginia Beach. In the 1970s Russell was a deputy police officer and family man in Virginia.
- Murray Cook
Murray Cook (born June 30, 1960 in Cowra, New South Wales, Australia) is an Australian vocalist, songwriter and guitarist. He is best known as a member of the children's band The Wiggles. Cook finished his secondary schooling in the southern suburbs of Sydney in the 1980s. Afterwards he was a clerk in the Australian Taxation Office and played bass in a Sydney-based rock band Finger Guns.
- Arman Sabir
Arman Sabir is an investigative journalist associated with the widely circulated English language daily newspaper Dawn in Pakistan. Born in Karachi, the commercial hub of Pakistan, he did his masters in mass communications from Urdu College, affiliated with the University of Karachi. He has written various investigative articles on criminal justice system in Pakistan. He also writes on the issues of national identity cards, transport, and law enforcement agencies.
- Frederica Massiah-Jackson
Frederica Massiah-Jackson is a Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas judge. She served as President Judge from November 2000 to January 2006. Massiah-Jackson graduated from the Philadelphia High School for Girls in 3 years at the age of 16. She also graduated from Chestnut Hill College in 3 years and the University of Pennsylvania Law School in 1974 at the age of 23. Following law school, she clerked for Pennsylvania Supreme Court Justice Robert N.C. Nix Jr.
- Frank M. Canton
Josiah Horner (September 15, 1849 - 1927), better known as Frank M. Canton, was a famous American Old West lawman, gunslinger, cowboy and at one point in his life, an outlaw.
- Richard McCoy Jr.
Richard McCoy, Jr. was a convicted hijacker. On April 7, 1972, four months after D. B. Cooper's hijacking, McCoy boarded United Flight 855 during a stopover in Denver. It was a Boeing 727 with aft stairs, the same type used in the Cooper incident, which McCoy used to escape after giving the crew the same type of instructions as Dan Cooper. McCoy was carrying a novelty grenade and an empty pistol. He left his fingerprints on a magazine he read on the plane.
- Nina Yefimova
Nina Yefimova was a reporter for "Vozrozhdeniye" ("Revival"), a local Russian language newspaper in the Chechen capital Grozny. She was the 18th journalist to be killed in Chechnya since fighting escalated in December 1994. On May 9 1996, Nina Yefimova, 25-year-old, was found dead from a shot to the back of the head. Her 73-year-old mother was also killed, after they were both abducted from their apartment on the outskirts of Grozny.
- Commodore Perry Owens
Commodore Perry Owens (July 29 1852-May 10 1919) was an American born lawman and gunfighter of the old west.
- Vasyl Durdynets
(Maj. Gen. Ret.) Vasyl Vasylovych Durdynets (b. 27 September 1937) is a Ukrainian statesman and diplomat. He served as Acting Prime Minister of Ukraine during a short period in June - July, 1997. Career Soviet law enforcer, Durdynets went up on the service in the Ministry of Internal Affairs of newly-independent Ukraine, then in the Government of Ukraine. He is recently the ambassador of Ukraine to Hungary.
- Per Sefland
Per Sefland (born 1949) has been Governor (Norwegian: "Sysselmann") of Svalbard since 1 October 2005. Sefland is a lawyer by education (cand. jur., 1975), and is a career law enforcement civil servant.
- Paul A. Yost Jr.
Paul Alexander Yost, Jr. (born 1929), He served as the eighteenth Commandant of the United States Coast Guard from 1986 to 1990. He is a native of St. Petersburg, Florida. He graduated from the United States Coast Guard Academy in New London, Connecticut, and earned graduate degrees from the University of Connecticut and The George Washington University. Prior to becoming Commandant, he served as a patrol boat commmander during the Vietnam War.
- Rafe McGregor
Rafe McGregor is a freelance writer. He was born in South Africa in 1973 and moved to the UK in 1998. He worked in law enforcement in both countries and was educated at UNISA and the OU. He was married in 2004 and lives in the East Riding of Yorkshire, England. He wrote the Secret trilogy featuring the South African character Jackson, as well as several short biographies of fictional characters.
- Newton Earp
Newton Jasper Earp was the eldest child of Nicholas Porter Earp, partriarch of the famous Earp family. While he was the little known half-brother of Old West lawmen Wyatt, Virgil, and Morgan Earp, Newton remained close to his father and half-siblings, alternately residing in California, Nevada and Arizona near other members of the Earp family. Newton was born in Ohio County, Kentucky, to Nicholas and his first wife, Abigail Storm (also spelled "Sturm" in family records).
- Simon Higgins
Simon Higgins (born 1958) is an English born Australian author of Young Adult novels who turned to writing in 1998 after a successful career in law enforcement, serving as a police officer and state prosecutor before also working as a private investigator, all in South Australia. His published works include adventure stories with science fiction elements, …