Larry K. Gaines is Professor Emeritus of Criminal Justice at California State University-San Bernardino. He served as the Executive Director of the Kentucky Association of Chiefs of Police for 14 years and was a police officer in Lexington, Kentucky. He has consulted with a variety of police agencies in Kentucky, Ohio, Tennessee, Georgia, and California. Gaines has served as Secretary Treasurer and President of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. He has received many awards, including the Founders Award from the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, the Outstanding Educator Award from the Southern Criminal Justice Association, and the Outstanding Service Award from the Police Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences. In 2001, he served as a member of the California POST Committee that developed police training curricula for racial profiling. He has published a number of books and journal articles addressing a variety of criminal justice topics and issues.

Janine Kremling has been a professor at California State University, San Bernardino, since 2008. She earned a Ph.D. in criminology from the University of South Florida. Kremling teaches a wide variety of classes. She has also published five books, including Cyberspace, Cybersecurity, and Cybercrime; Homeland Security; Drugs, Crime, and Justice; and Estimating Drug Use. Kremling has been studying issues pertaining to policing, especially criminal procedure and how it impacts policing. In addition, she has also extensively studied drug use and abuse and police responses.

Ronald W. Glensor is an instructor in the Department of Criminal Justice at the University of Nevada, Reno. He is a retired assistant chief of the Reno Police Department in Nevada, and has more than 35 years of police experience. He is recognized internationally for his work in community policing and has provided instruction for more than 500 agencies throughout the United States and in Canada, Australia, and the United Kingdom. In 1994, he was awarded a research fellowship at the Police Executive Research Forum in Washington, DC, where he was responsible for the development of training in problem solving. He is widely published and has co-authored the books Community Policing and Problem Solving: Strategies and Practices, 5th ed, Police Supervision, 3rd ed., and Policing Communities: Understanding Crime and Solving Problems. He earned a Master's degree in public administration and policy and a doctorate in political science from the University of Nevada, Reno.