Dr. Ronal W. Serpas is a full-time faculty member and Professor of Practice, Criminology and Justice, Loyola University New Orleans. Dr. Serpas retired from a 34-year career in American law enforcement. From 2001 – 2014 he served as the Police Superintendent in New Orleans, LA, Police Chief in Nashville, TN and Chief of the Washington State Patrol. Dr. Serpas was a successful change agent implementing organizational wide transformation, advancing community policing, and implementing justice and legitimacy principles in the delivery of police service. In each department, significant decreases in crime and increases in citizen satisfaction were achieved and sustained. Dr. Serpas was a leader for more than twenty years in creating innovative changes in recruitment/retention, deployment, criminal investigations, disciplinary investigations and actions, use of force policies and the investigations of use of force. In 2017, Dr. Serpas was designated by the membership as the 5th Honorary President of the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP). Dr. Serpas has published several articles on topics such as police accountability and disciplinary systems, firearm violence in America, implementing procedural Justice and police legitimacy, and more.