Author: Stacey Pearson
Stacey Pearson recently retired as a twenty-year veteran sergeant of the Louisiana State Police. She has completed thousands of hours of law enforcement training to include NCMEC's Chief Executive Officer Seminar. In 2016, she completed the John Jay College of Criminal Justice Law Enforcement Leadership program and, in 2017, she completed the Senior Executives in State and Local Government program at Harvard's Kennedy School. She is currently seeking her Master of Criminal Justice at Boston University with an anticipated completion date in August 2018.
Stacey served as a uniform trooper, narcotics agent, and a criminal investigator, and was a supervisor on a multi-agency investigative task force responsible for investigating the deaths of eight women in Jefferson Davis Parish. Since 2011, she supervised the Lafayette Field Office of the Special Victims Unit, managed the Louisiana Clearinghouse for Missing and Exploited Children, and was the coordinator for the Louisiana AMBER Alert Plan. Stacey regularly teaches at the Louisiana Juvenile Officers’ Academy and has enjoyed public speaking, panelist, and guest lecturing engagements at the National Missing and Unidentified Persons Conference, the national AMBER Alert Conference, and Loyola University in New Orleans.
Stacey received numerous awards and commendations over her career. In 2017, she was nominated by a member of NCMEC for the prestigious law enforcement “Hero” award for her role in the recovery of four children who were abducted from California by their non-custodial mother and a registered sex offender.
Stacey lives quietly, dividing her time between Lafayette, Louisiana, and Boston, Massachusetts. She plans to seek her PhD in criminology and write and teach through her consulting company, Espoir Consulting. Stacey believes she can provide hope to families of missing children by training others. She also supports literacy efforts like Little Free Libraries and privately funds The Pelican Project, a charitable organization which provides reunification assistance to needful families of missing, abducted, and/or exploited children.
When I clicked on the link titled, “5 Reasons First Responders Should Take Yoga Seriously,” I was less drawn to the words and more drawn to the photograph of Des Moines (Iowa) Police Academy recruits reclined in a modified corpse yoga pose, in a darkened indoor firing range, with paper targets – some with holes […]