Meet Mike Brave
ILEETA Legal Advisor & Advisory Board Member (ex officio)
Michael Brave is the
President of LAAW International, Inc., and the former President of the
International Force Institute, Inc. He is also the Director of Law Enforcement
and Security Consulting for API Services, Inc. His experience includes
involvement in a wide-range of comprehensive law enforcement and private
security risk/liability and litigation management services including: training
programs, policy development and review, liability/risk assessments, training
appraisals, department audits, post critical incident analysis, etc. He has also
served as a litigation consultant and an expert witness in federal civil rights
issues; sudden custody and/or unforeseeable death; positional asphyxia;
restraint; handcuffing; law enforcement policy, training, supervision,
discipline, retention, and termination; use of force (including deadly force,
batons, pepper spray, electronic restraint, physical restraint, neck restraints,
defensive tactics); vehicle operations (including pursuits, road blocks,
emergency operation, occupant restraint); canines; jail issues (including
suicides); failure to protect; failure to provide medical care, failure to act;
and numerous other cases.
Mr. Brave is formerly the
Chief of the Intelligence and Investigative Operations Unit, Office of
Enforcement Operations (OEO), United States Department of Justice (DOJ), in
Washington, D.C. In that position, he
oversaw several highly sensitive law enforcement programs. Mr. Brave also held
the concurrent position of Deputy Director for International Operations of the
Federal Witness Security Program where he coordinated the foreign aspects of the
Program, including a portion of Plan Colombia, for the official who oversaw the
Program in the DOJ. Mr. Brave=s
other DOJ duties included: OEO Use-of-Force and Firearms Training Officer,
Criminal Division Security Officer, and Division Watch Officer. Mr. Brave was
also a Special Deputy United States Marshall and his National Security
Information security clearance was above Top Secret.
As a certified, and
nationally recognized, instructor in several facets of deadly force, many
non-lethal, and less-than-lethal programs, several law enforcement vehicle
operation programs, and others, Mike has presented hundreds of law enforcement
risk/liability management programs across the country, and numerous
internationally (including the United Kingdom and Mexico). Mike has also served
as the lead attorney for the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP)
and the National Highway Traffic and Safety Administration for their Occupant
Restraint Risk Management Program. Mike is (since 1983) a certified Wisconsin
law enforcement officer. Additionally, he has served as a (part-time) police
legal advisor, trainer, field training officer, and patrol captain.
Mike is the Legal Advisor
and an Ex-Officio Advisory Board member of the International Law Enforcement
Educators and Trainers Association. Mike has served on the National Advisory
Boards of the Police Law Institute, the Jail Law Institute, and Defense Training
International, Inc. He is a former member of the Executive Board of the American
Society for Law Enforcement Training (ASLET). He also served as a member of the
Executive Committee of the Legal Officers' Section of the IACP and is a former
consultant to the Law Enforcement Legal Defense Manual. Mike has
published articles in periodicals including the Police Chief, American
City & County, the Prosecutor, Police & Security News,
Public Risk, the ASLET Journal, Casino Enterprise Management,
the International Use of Force Journal, the Law Enforcement Legal
Defense Manual, and others; and has also presented several programs on the
Law Enforcement Television Network.
Mike's prior experience
includes being an attorney for a St. Paul (MN) law firm with special emphasis on
municipal and liability defense, and being the personnel and special projects
director for the National Institute for Trial Advocacy, a leading provider of
attorney litigation education. Mr. Brave holds a Juris Doctor degree from
Hamline University School of Law, a Bachelor's Degree in Business Administration
and a Master's Degree in Management Technology from the University of Wisconsin
- Stout. He has been certified as a Certified Protection Specialist and a
Certified Security Trainer. He is admitted to the U.S. Supreme Court; the 7th,
8th, and D.C. Federal Circuit Courts of Appeal; Wisconsin and Minnesota State
Courts; and others.
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