Richard C. Lumb, PhD, is Emeritus Associate Professor and Chair, State University of New York at Brockport, Department of Criminal Justice. He was an Associate Professor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte and Northern Michigan University. He currently is an adjunct faculty member at the University of Maine at Augusta and the University of Massachusetts at Lowell and Boston. He completed twenty-four years of policing, including Maine State Police and Chief of Police in two communities. He has provided consulting services to the Maine Sheriffs Association, the Maine Department of Corrections, the Old Orchard Beach Police Department and others in a variety of projects including training and program development and evaluation. He continues to assist police and sheriff agencies in planning, program development and evaluation and other services. He served as Director of the Research, Planning and Analysis Bureau for the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Police Department that included Project Director of the Carolinas Institute for Community Policing in North and South Carolina (U.S. Department of Justice and the COPS Office funded) and other projects. The CMPD, CICP project provided national police and sheriff agencies with training in the use of Geographic Information Systems with the analysis of crime and disorder, community capacity building and citizen partnership to analyze and determine sustainable solutions to repeat calls for service and crime hot spots. He is active in sustainable community capacity building as it relates to crime, disorder and quality of life. He has several publications in policing and related topics and remains active in research and applied sustainable solutions to persistent problems. He received his doctorate from Florida State University in 1990.