Dr. Craig D. Uchida, Ph.D.

JSS President and Founder

Justice & Security Strategies, Inc.

As a criminologist, he has studied violent crime, policing, and a variety of programs in the criminal justice system. He is the author of numerous journal articles, government publications, and monographs His most recent book is: Policing the Streets of Los Angeles: Controversies, Change and Continuity. His most recent journal articles include studies of body-worn cameras (in Criminology and Sociological Methods and Research), focused deterrence (in Police Quarterly), and use of force (in the Criminal Justice Policy Review).

As an educator, Dr. Uchida has taught courses at the Naval Post-Graduate School’s Program in Homeland Security and was a professor at the University of Maryland. He was the Senior Advisor to the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service where he revised the entire training curriculum for this 7,300-officer department.

As a public policy administrator, Dr. Uchida was a senior executive within the US Department of Justice. He is the former Assistant Director for Grants Administration for the Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS Office). He and his staff were responsible for developing and implementing the grant making process, making grant awards, and grant monitoring. When he left the COPS Office he had provided $3.4 billion to over 9,000 law enforcement agencies for over 65,000 officers. His efforts resulted in two major US Department of Justice Awards – the Attorney General’s Distinguished Service Award in 1995 and the JustWorks Award for innovation in government in 1997.

As a community leader, Craig is active in Asian American organizations nationally. He is the Chairman Emeritus of the Board of Directors of the National Japanese American Memorial Foundation and the Treasurer of the Washington DC Chapter of the Japanese American Citizens League, the oldest Asian civil rights organization in the country. In 2006 he was selected as a Japanese American Leadership Delegate by Japan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

Craig received his Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the University at Albany and holds two Masters degrees, one in Criminal Justice and one in American History.