Joseph
D. McNamara was appointed a research fellow at the Hoover Institution,
Stanford University, in 1991. He was chief of police for the city of San
Jose, California, for fifteen years. He is recognized as an expert in
criminal justice, police technology and management systems, crime
prevention, and international drug control policies.
McNamara's career in law enforcement spans a
thirty-five-year period. He began in Harlem as a beat patrolman for the
New York City Police Department. He rose through the ranks and in
midcareer was appointed a criminal justice fellow at Harvard Law School,
focusing on criminal justice research methodology. Following this
appointment he took a leave from police work and obtained a doctorate in
public administration at Harvard. Returning to duty with the NYPD, he was
appointed deputy inspector in charge of crime analysis for New York City.
In 1973 McNamara became police chief of Kansas City,
Missouri, leading that department into groundbreaking research and
innovative programs. In 1976 McNamara was appointed police chief for the
city of San Jose, where he remained until his retirement in 1991. During
his tenure, San Jose (the third-largest city in California and the
eleventh largest in the United States) became the safest city in the
country, despite having the fewest police per capita. The San Jose police
became a model for innovation, community relations, utilization of
technology, and productivity. The department's advanced training and
computerization programs have been duplicated throughout the world.
McNamara has served as lecturer and adjunct professor
at five different colleges and has lectured at many of the nation's top
universities, including Harvard, Stanford, and the University of
California at Berkeley. In 1980, he was appointed by the U. S. attorney
general to the advisory board of the Bureau of Justice Statistics.
He has been a commentator for National Public
Broadcasting radio and has appeared on Meet the Press, Good Morning
America, the Today Show, CBS Morning News, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer,
Crossfire, Nightline, Oprah, Donahue, Larry King Live, Sixty Minutes, and
other programs.
He has been a consultant for the United States
Department of Justice, State Department, the Federal Bureau of
Investigation, and some of the nation's largest corporations. Over the
past decade, McNamara has organized four conferences at the Hoover
Institution, attended by police chiefs and command officers, focusing on
U. S. drug control policies.
McNamara has written five books, including three
national best-selling detective novels and a respected crime prevention
text. He has published articles in the New York Times, the Los Angeles
Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the
Kansas City Star, Newsday, Harper's, Cosmopolitan, National Review, USA
Today, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, and other
publications. In addition, McNamara is sought as a lecturer throughout the
country.
(2002)
Law Enforcement Against Prohibition
Joseph
D. McNamara
Joseph D. McNamara was appointed a
research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University, in
1991. He was chief of police for the city of San Jose, California, for
fifteen years. He is recognized as an expert in criminal justice,
police technology and management systems, crime prevention, and
international drug control policies.
McNamara's career in law enforcement spans a thirty-five-year period.
He began in Harlem as a beat patrolman for the New York City Police
Department. He rose through the ranks and in midcareer was appointed a
criminal justice fellow at Harvard Law School, focusing on criminal
justice research methodology. Following this appointment he took a
leave from police work and obtained a doctorate in public
administration at Harvard. Returning to duty with the NYPD, he was
appointed deputy inspector in charge of crime analysis for New York
City.
In
1973 McNamara became police chief of Kansas City, Missouri, leading
that department into groundbreaking research and innovative programs.
In 1976 McNamara was appointed police chief for the city of San Jose,
where he remained until his retirement in 1991. During his tenure, San
Jose (the third-largest city in California and the eleventh largest in
the United States) became the safest city in the country, despite
having the fewest police per capita. The San Jose police became a
model for innovation, community relations, utilization of technology,
and productivity. The department's advanced training and
computerization programs have been duplicated throughout the world.
McNamara has served as lecturer and adjunct professor at five
different colleges and has lectured at many of the nation's top
universities, including Harvard, Stanford, and the University of
California at Berkeley. In 1980, he was appointed by the U. S.
attorney general to the advisory board of the Bureau of Justice
Statistics.
He
has been a commentator for National Public Broadcasting radio and has
appeared on Meet the Press, Good Morning America, the Today Show, CBS
Morning News, the NewsHour with Jim Lehrer, Crossfire, Nightline,
Oprah, Donahue, Larry King Live, Sixty Minutes, and other programs.
He
has been a consultant for the United States Department of Justice,
State Department, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, and some of the
nation's largest corporations. Over the past decade, McNamara has
organized four conferences at the Hoover Institution, attended by
police chiefs and command officers, focusing on U. S. drug control
policies.
McNamara has written five books, including three national best-selling
detective novels and a respected crime prevention text. He has
published articles in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the
Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, the Boston Globe, the Kansas
City Star, Newsday, Harper's, Cosmopolitan, National Review, USA
Today, the San Francisco Chronicle, the San Jose Mercury News, and
other publications. In addition, McNamara is sought as a lecturer
throughout the country.
