Tracie Keesee is a native of Denver Colorado and a 20 year veteran with the Denver Police Department and the Division Chief of Research, Training and Technology. Her previous assignments include, Patrol Districts 3 and 5 as Commander, Detective in Crimes Against Persons, the Public Information Officer for the Chief, Internal Affairs, the Police Training Academy, the Gang Bureau and Commander of the Information Technology Development Unit.

Tracie holds a Bachelors of Arts Degree in Political Science from Metropolitan State College, Academic certifications in Public Policy and Public Administration from the University of Colorado at Denver, a Masters Degree in Criminal Justice from the University of Colorado at Denver and a Ph.D. from the University of Denver in Intercultural Communications. She is a graduate of the 203 class of the FBI National Academy, the 1994 class of the African-American Leadership Institute.

Tracie is the Executive Director of the Consortium for Police Leadership in Equity (CPLE). The CPLE is a research consortium that promotes police transparency and accountability by facilitating innovative research collaborations between law enforcement agencies and empirical social scientists. Through these facilitated collaborations, the Consortium seeks to improve issues of equity–particularly racial and gender equity–in policing both within law enforcement agencies and between agencies and the communities they serve. The Consortium aims to effect cultural transformations within both law enforcement and the academy by creating opportunities that simultaneously preserve the dignity of law enforcement and advance the application of social science to the real world.

Dr Keesee has demonstrated a strong understanding of the benefits of community partnerships; she as implemented the following programs, Montebello’s first community store front located in the Villages a Gateway, the literacy program The Reading Police, Law Related Education (officer and teacher teams) in Martin Luther King Middle School, Omar Blair, and Montbello High Schools, Neighborhood Police Officers, Yes I Can Program (Gang Awareness program for youth transitioning from middle to high school), and the Latch Key Kids Project. Her publications include: “Neighborhood Watch.” (2005) In P. Gerstenfeld (Vol Ed.), Criminal Justice (p.1193). Pasadena: Salem Press., “Yolonda Saldivar.” In C. L. Bankston III (Vol Ed.), Great Lives from History: Notorious Lives. Pasadena: Salem Press and coauthor of “Across the Thin Blue Line: Police Officers and Racial Bias in the Decision to Shoot.”

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