
54th Mile Policing Project - Steering Committee Meeting

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54th Mile Steering Committee

Dr. Cedric L. Alexander Psy.D. is a law enforcement expert with over 40 years of experience in public safety, currently serving as Commissioner of Community Safety at the City of Minneapolis. He has appeared on national media networks to provide comment on police-community relations and as a CNN, MSNBC, and Fox law enforcement analyst has written numerous editorials including “What’s the plan now, America?” “The Chauvin trail is holding a mirror up to America’s insufficient police training,” and “Capitol riot a stunning reminder of America’s policing crisis.”
Daryl V. Atkinson is the Co-Director and Co-Founder of Forward Justice. At Forward Justice, Atkinson serves in several critical roles, including leading movement-building litigation, advancing public policies that address the needs of people with criminal records, and offering tremendous thought leadership through scholarship and public speaking on criminal justice, race, and democracy.








Kathleen O’Toole is a partner at 21CP Solutions. She is an attorney and career police officer who served as Chief of Police for the Seattle (WA) Police Department, Commissioner of the Boston (MA) Police Department, and Massachusetts Secretary of Public Safety. She also served as Chief Inspector of the Garda Síochána, the Irish national police service.


is a civil rights lawyer and author whose coalition cases have won over $10 billion in damages and policy changes that include the largest settlement in civil rights history. California LawBusiness ranked her as one of California’s Top Ten Lawyers. In 2006, Rice led partners that ranged from police to gang interventionists to launch the nation’s most successful gang and community violence reduction system.
Sean Smoot is Managing Partner at 21CP Solutions, LLC. Smoot provides consulting services to several state and local law enforcement agencies as well as private companies. He is a member of the Baltimore (MD) and Cleveland (OH) Police Departments' consent decree monitoring teams and also serves as director of the Police Benevolent & Protective Association of Illinois and the Police Benevolent Labor Committee.


Co-Founders of the 54th Mile Policing Project



National Policing Institute Staff



is a Project Associate at the National Policing Institute, supporting many locally focused law enforcement projects. She has experience in criminal justice-related policy development and administration, intergovernmental relations, and community engagement.


Andrea M. Headley (Visiting Scholar), Ph.D., is an Assistant Professor at the McCourt School of Public Policy at Georgetown University. She also holds an appointment as a Visiting Scholar of Race, Policing, and Crime at the National Policing Institute. She is a scholar of public management, racial equity, and criminal justice policy. At the heart of research lies the question of how can we create a more effective and equitable criminal justice system?



Linda A. Seabrook began her legal career as an Assistant Solicitor (prosecutor) in her hometown of Charleston, SC in order to ensure Black women and girls could access justice, too. During her tenure as a prosecutor, Linda founded the Charleston County Domestic Violence Community Coalition, which provided increased referrals to community resources and assistance for all involved in family violence incidents.