Eugene O’Donnell has taught at John Jay College for 17 years, in both the departments of law and police science and special programs.  He was previously a police officer with the New York City Police Department, a prosecutor in Queens, N.Y. and a senior prosecutor in the Brooklyn District Attorney’s Office.  During law school, he was an intern in the United States Attorney’s Office for the Eastern District of New York.  He has also been director of intake and advocacy at the Law Enforcement Division of the New York City Commission on Human Rights.  He was law and police science coordinator at the John Jay College branch campus in Puerto Rico and was, for three years, a trainer in the United States Department of State’s International Law Enforcement Academy (ILEA) programs in Europe and Africa.  He was coordinator of the New York State Law Enforcement Executive Institute from 2005 to 2008 and is a certified New York State police trainer.  He has written approximately 20 op-ed opinion articles and various other articles which have appeared in the New York Daily News, New York Post, Newsday, The Philadelphia Inquirer and Newsweek.com and he has written textbook chapters on civilian police review and policing in minority communities.  He is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Law Enforcement, and has appeared in numerous print and electronic media.  In 2005, he was a Visiting Professor at the United Kingdom’s Bramshill Police College where he researched community justice initiatives.