About Steve Lurie

Steve Lurie is a full time Police Sergeant, a member of the California Bar, and an adjunct professor of law.

Law Enforcement Experience:  Currently responsible for supervision of field operations, screening and evaluation of community complaints, police misconduct, use of force, and managing civilian and sworn personnel.  Steve has experience as a patrol and counterterrorism officer; training officer; homicide detective; sex crimes investigator; and has served as lead detective on sexual assault and homicide cases.  Immediately following 9-11, he was selected to serve as primary author for several counterterrorism documents that remain best practices in the State of California.

Academics and Research:  Steve focuses his research and lecturing on the emerging field of police practices, where he designed one of the only upper division law school police practices curricula in the nation.  Conceived to bridge the knowledge gap between attorneys and the police culture, Steve teaches this course at both Pepperdine Law School and Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.

This unique resume, with fourteen years in law enforcement, seven years of bar admission, and eight semesters as a professor, give him a balanced and current perspective – ongoing street experience on a daily basis, a lawyer’s insight, ongoing academic research and lecturing – and he brings this perspective to your police issues.