My name is Sue Carnell I'm a part-time
instructor here at Madison College I
spent the last 26 years with the City of
Madison Police Department retired two
years ago. I can tell you that I never in
my wildest dreams ever thought that I
would be a police officer; I grew up in
the city of Chicago, and I grew up pretty
poor, grew up in housing projects and my
family was homeless for a while, we
didn't have much I didn't come for much.
I applied myself in school I graduated
with honors from high school managed to
get a scholarship. The best that we can
do for ourselves as police officers in
this field is to constantly examine our
biases, because we all have them and the
responsibility of being a police officer can't be taken lightly.
My name is Adrian Bump, my professional
experience consists of 20 years as a
sworn police officer. My first 10 years
was as a patrolman where I was a
certified state instructor in multiple
disciplines including vehicle contacts
EVOC. After my 10 years of experience as
a patrolman, I became a lieutenant. I was
at the level of lieutenant for six years.
I've been the chief of police for the
city of Fort Atkinson for the last four
years and just recently started teaching
here at Madison College at the beginning
of 2018. I always tell my command staff
we talk about that hope is not a method—
you know: "I hope it turns out for me." You
have to actually go after what you want
and you need to make it happen yourself,
you need to leverage the skills you have
and take advantage of things before you
and make it happen don't hope that it happens.
My name is Brian Schneider
my background is mainly in law
enforcement and asset security started
in 1981 as a patrol officer once I came
to Wisconsin, I became a law enforcement
officer in Mount Horeb, Wisconsin and
eventually becoming the chief in a small
municipality in Dane
County. And currently I'm working for the
Department of Defense and I am the
Wisconsin Senior Security Analyst who
advises and analyzes for the Joint Force Headquarters in Madison.
My name is Amy
Nemmetz I teach community policing
strategies. My very first job I was still
in high school and they said come work
at the sheriff's department— transcribe
the tapes for the detectives. And then
from that job I went and worked at a
drug unit and assisted with undercover
drug buys and some search warrants; and
then from there I got to work at a
police department as a community service
officer and dispatcher; and then from
there I kind of dived more into the
correctional route I worked with
juveniles at risk and then I also worked
for Dane County courts.
I'm also a licensed social worker so I
jumped over to Human Services and I
worked in child protections and I've
been doing some Victim Impact
programming with students at a medium
security Correctional Institution for the last four years.
My name is Aaron Chapin I'm the Chief of Police with the
village of Short Hills and I formerly
was with the University of Wisconsin
Madison Police Department for 17 years:
spent time in patrol, court services and
have been heavily involved in training
for multiple years. I've taught in the
recruit Academy for probably seven or
eight years now and this is my first
first semester in the criminal justice
program so I'm incredibly excited.
My name is Tim Krueger I've been a police
officer since 1989 I started my career
with the city of Fort Atkinson police
department. While I was at Fort Atkinson
I served in a variety of different
positions including patrol, drug
enforcement, including a year as an
undercover drug in narcotics officer. I
spent time in the schools as a school
resource officer. I was promoted to
lieutenant and I spent about six years
as a lieutenant. In 2001 I was hired by
the Village of Maple bluff as the Police
Chief and as the village administrator. I
continue to be employed in that
position.
My name is Ron Groffe and I've been an instructor here at Madison College for about 30 years. I have worked
with the Department of Justice that the
crime labs for 36 years. I was the head
of the imaging unit I was a field
response team member which is basically
the CSI type of people. I was also sent
to the FBI Academy several times
for specialized training. I've been
qualified both as a expert witness in
photography and also in crime scene
processing. There's two courses that I
developed which is the investigative
photography class and then I also have a forensic evidence class.
My name is Kevin Stapleton, in the course of my career in
law enforcement, I spent nearly 25 years
with the Jefferson County Sheriff's
Department and started teaching in the
latter part of my years with them. When
somebody asked well what do you like to
teach I always say "Well Intro to
Corrections is probably my favorite," and
that also has to do with the fact that a
third of my entire career was in
Corrections. I started it as a deputy in
Corrections, I was a sergeant on second
and third shift in Corrections and
eventually when I was promoted to
Captain I became the administrator of a midsize jail.
I teach in a law
Enforcement Academy here and on the
first day I talk about being holistic
in your approach, and I do this in the in
the associate degree program as well I
say, you know let's talk about your
mental health and your physical health,
because there are gonna be bad days; you
need to go home at the end of the day
and and rejuvenate yourself.
My name is Brian Landers I was a police officer with the city of Wisconsin Dells Police
Department was a k-9 handler
I had a dual-purpose German Shepherd his
name was k9 "Felon," then I got promoted to Sergeant then got promoted to Lieutenant;
was on the drug unit was commander of
our city drug unit was on Sauk and
Columbia County drug units as well. Prior
to being mayor and was elected for three
terms on the county board. When I was a
kid growing up in Chicago my dad would
take me fishing along the harbors of
Lake Michigan and the officers on
horseback the mounted officers would
patrol down there and they would stop
and talk to me, and that really stuck
with me. My dad lost his job and we were
gonna be homeless, so my aunt ran a
little dairy farm in Wisconsin Dells a
really small dinky little dairy farm and
she took us in. So I really literally
went from an inner-city school in
Chicago one day and the next day I was
enrolled in a little country school in
the Dells and it was it was quite the
culture shock. I actually went to Madison
College right out of high school, so I
got my two years of Madison College, I
did my internship at the Dells Police
Department while I was going to school
here, and they hired me right out right
out of college so you know I tell my
students now I'm living proof that their
Associate degree will take them right to
a job.
My name is Sandy Blumer I'm
the Criminal Justice Department Chair
and Tribal Partnership Director here at
the college. I've been here for 15 years,
I started in the role of the Native
American student advisor and that
morphed into program advising and then
was offered this position which I also
referred to as my dream job. Everyone's
on their journey and everyone's coming
from a different place and students are
coming from all those experiences that
they've had up to this point, and now we
get to help feed them in a way that's
going to affect our communities. So it
feels really good when I know the
quality of our staff and their
backgrounds and their their the
histories of what they know and what
they've experienced and to know that
that's who— those are the instructors
teaching our young people to go out and
build community? Wow that makes me feel I
mean it makes me feel good and I'm in
the right place and that's it's a it's
powerful it's pretty powerful yeah.
My name is Kalvin Barrett, I'm a full-time
instructor in the criminal justice
program as well as on the lead defense
and arrest tactics instructor in our
Law Enforcement Academy. Before becoming
a full-time instructor here at Madison
College, I was a Dane County Deputy at
the Dane County Sheriff's Office for
three years, after that I was a Sun
Prairie Police Department officer for
five years. My father was in law
enforcement when I was young and he
passed away an injury related to being
on duty, so at that time at 12 years old
I had the opportunity to see the
law-enforcement community in San Diego
California at his funeral. I'll never
forget being there and my mom and our
family being there and and the flag
being folded and the shots being fired
and the planes flying over, but what I
remembered the most was there were so
many law enforcement officers from the
entire state of California and I just
remember looking while I was shaking the
hands of all of these officers thinking
"Gosh they all came to pay respects to my
father," and that's where I really
understood the bond of the law
enforcement community and how strong
that is this was also really inspiring
as well
