JAMES E. McCABE, Ph.D.

Dr. McCabe is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, CT.  He took on this position after completing 21 years of service with the New York City Police Department.  In the NYPD, he held numerous command level assignments including the Commanding Officer of Labor Relations, Commanding Officer of the Training Bureau, Commanding Officer of the Police Academy, and the Commanding Officer of the 110th Precinct in Elmhurst/Corona, Queens.  He was also assigned as the Executive Officer of the Police Commissioner’s Office and the 113th Precinct in South Jamaica.  He retired in 2006 from the NYPD with the rank of Inspector to assume a new career in academia at Sacred Heart.

Dr. McCabe has a BA in Psychology from Queens College, and MA in Labor Studies from Empire State College, an MA in Criminal Justice from John Jay College, and a Ph.D. in Criminal Justice from the CUNY Graduate Center.  He is a graduate of the 189th Session of the FBI National Academy, and Executive Programs at Columbia University’s Not-for-Profit Management Institute (Police Management Institute) and the JFK School of Government at Harvard University. 

He has published numerous scholarly articles and book chapters on the subject of police effectiveness and is also active with local police departments in improving their operations.  He has lectured around the country to both police and academic audiences about organizational behavior, leadership, supervisory communications, and the impact of police operations on public safety and neighborhood satisfaction with police services.  He is also part of the Federal Monitor team appointed by the U.S. District Court of the Southern District in New York overseeing mandated reforms of the stop, question, and frisk practices of the NYPD.

Dr. McCabe is a nationally recognized expert on police operations.  He was the principal investigator in more than 95 studies examining police operations in over 42 states and in every region of the country.  In addition, he has appeared as an expert witness in labor wage and interest arbitrations, an expert witness on the use of force, as well as a mediator in labor-management dispute resolutions.