Staff
Larry Gutierrez
Room 403J, Academic Center
Phone: 509.358.7949
Fax: 509.358.7933
E-mail: gutierrez@wsu.edu
Profile
Larry is the Program Coordinator for the Western Regional Institute for Community Oriented Public Safety (WRICOPS).
Rachel Young
Room 401, Academic Center
Phone: 509.358.7950
Fax: 509.358.7933
E-mail: reyoung@wsu.edu
Profile
Rachel Young is the Administrative Assistant for the Criminal Justice Department. She has been with WSU Spokane for two years and change and is a re-patriated Inland Empire native. Rachel has previously worked as a postpartum doula. She's taken up playing the alto saxophone again after an 18 year hiatus and hopes to be good enough come summer to busk and have passers-by toss money so she'll keep playing, rather than stop.
Research Spotlight
WSICOP currently engages in activity with founding partners in two principal ways. First, a community perspective is provided to the Washington State Criminal Justice Training Commission’s Peace Officer Certifications Hearing Panel.
This panel hears testimony to determine whether evidence exists that would lead to the decertification of commissioned police officers (Executive Director Mike Erp serves as a presiding panel member).
Second, researchers from WSICOP provide technical assistance to the Washington Association of Sheriffs and Police Chiefs in facilitating their “Town Forum” and “Five Hills Over” sessions, and serve as members and research consultants to the WASPC Police Futures Committee.