Dr. Pastor is an Associate Professor in public safety programs at Calumet College of St. Joseph and President of SecureLaw Ltd., a public safety and security services firm. In addition, he is an adjunct instructor at California University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Pastor formerly taught Security Technology classes to officials from policing agencies throughout the world at the International Law Enforcement Academy in Roswell, NM. He also taught at Northwestern University-Center for Public Safety and in the graduate Security Management program at Webster University.

Dr. Pastor has thirty years of security, police, and legal experience. As an attorney, he established a public safety niche, representing four security guard firms, two police unions, plus serving as the Legal Counsel/ Operational Auditor for SecurityLink. In his law practice, Dr. Pastor represented hundreds of police officers in disciplinary proceedings. He started his career with the Chicago Police Department, where he served as a tactical police officer in the Gang Crime Enforcement Unit, and later as an Assistant Department Advocate, representing the department in internal disciplinary matters.

Dr. Pastor has a Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis from the University of Illinois at Chicago;
J.D. from John Marshall Law School; M.A. in Criminal Justice from the University of Illinois at Chicago, where his thesis was entitled: A Critical Analysis of Terrorism, and B.S. in Law Enforcement Administration and in Sociology from Western Illinois University.

He is the author of three books: Terrorism and Public Safety Policing: Implications for the Obama Presidency, Taylor and Francis (2009), Security Law & Methods, Butterworth-Heinemann (2006), and The Privatization of Police in America: An Analysis and Case Study, McFarland & Company (2003). He wrote a chapter in the ASIS International Protection of Assets (POA) manual entitled: Private Policing on Public Environments, and several other articles on security, policing and public safety. 

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