Experience

Borough Of Penns Grove
• United States
• Government Administration
• 1 - 100 Employee
• Police Director

  • Apr 2021 - Present

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• police consultant


Richard Rivera, LLC

• Police Expert Consultant

  • 2008 - Present

  Consultant to individuals, attorneys, organizations and law enforcement agencies (paid and pro bono) relating to police conduct and operations. Draft expert reports, studies, research and issue findings on improving police services and community relations. Offer non-legal advice and peer counseling to police officers with work related stressors, disciplinary matters or discrimination assertions. Participate in community forums on police related topics. Consultant to individuals, attorneys, organizations and law enforcement agencies (paid and pro bono) relating to police conduct and operations. Draft expert reports, studies, research and issue findings on improving police services and community relations. Offer non-legal advice and peer counseling to police officers with work related stressors, disciplinary matters or discrimination assertions. Participate in community forums on police related topics.



City of Miami

• United States
• Government Administration
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Analyst

  • Aug 2018 - Jan 2020

  Conduct systematic analyses of policy issues within the Miami Police Department and provide findings through analysis and written reports. Work closely with the Executive Director to administer the agency’s policy research program and draft, review, and edit detailed reports on patterns in complaints, workload, investigative outcomes, and policy issues. Conduct systematic analyses of policy issues within the Miami Police Department and provide findings through analysis and written reports. Work closely with the Executive Director to administer the agency’s policy research program and draft, review, and edit detailed reports on patterns in complaints, workload, investigative outcomes, and policy issues.



Richard Rivera, LLC.

• Primary Field Researcher

  • 1999 - 2015

  Primary field researcher in several historical cases investigating racial profiling allegation during police traffic stops throughout New Jersey. Drove more than 50,000 miles while conducting roadway traffic surveys. Worked on other cases with similar allegations nationally and completed traffic citation analyses, citizen complaint intake reviews and have spoken nationally on the topic of racial profiling. Primary field researcher in several historical cases investigating racial profiling allegation during police traffic stops throughout New Jersey. Drove more than 50,000 miles while conducting roadway traffic surveys. Worked on other cases with similar allegations nationally and completed traffic citation analyses, citizen complaint intake reviews and have spoken nationally on the topic of racial profiling.



West New York Parking Authority

• Executive Director

  • 2013 - 2014

  Lead the daily operations of an agency with 24 employees and $1.6 million in revenues. Investigate and discipline employee conduct. Initialize a needs assessment of the office and develop budget projections to plan for future events and expenditures. Oversee the management of 10 parking facilities with 1,100 parking spaces in the nation’s densest region while increasing revenues and responding to community needs. Lead the daily operations of an agency with 24 employees and $1.6 million in revenues. Investigate and discipline employee conduct. Initialize a needs assessment of the office and develop budget projections to plan for future events and expenditures. Oversee the management of 10 parking facilities with 1,100 parking spaces in the nation’s densest region while increasing revenues and responding to community needs.



Open Society Foundations

• United States
• Non-profit Organizations
• 700 & Above Employee

• Fellowship

  • Apr 2011 - Jan 2013

  OSF biography- Rich is a community organizer that has concentrated on reducing mass incarceration of minorities by professionalizing internal affairs investigations to detect false charges by officers and thus avert wrongful convictions and incarcerations. He took it a step further by reviewing police use of force and citizen complaints of use of force as an example where officers may abuse their authority and present false charges. Through his work and research as a Soros Justice Fellow, Rich has been successful in reaching law enforcement officials interested in less-lethal force options and employee accountability mechanisms. He shares data with police executives so they make informed decisions on policing techniques that affect community perceptions and realities. Since 2013, the New Jersey Office of Attorney General has adopted many of the reforms Mr. Rivera advocated for in his OSF research. Show less