Dr. Patrick O’Hara has been a member of the faculty at John Jay College of Criminal Justice for over twenty-five years. Professor O’Hara teaches in John Jay’s Master of Public Administration Program, was the charter director of the MPA-Inspector General track and joined the doctoral faculty in 2006. From 2001-2007, Professor O’Hara helped develop and direct John Jay’s NYPD Certificate Program, which delivers credit-bearing management and community relations curricula to sworn NYPD personnel. Professor O’Hara has written and lectured extensively on management issues and has authored texts in the areas of public administration and supervisory management. His principal writing focus over the past decade has been on police organization, management and criminal justice policy. His most recent book is Why Law Enforcement Organizations Fail, published in 2005 by Carolina Academic Press. Professor O’Hara was an exchange scholar at the Bramshill Police Staff College in England in 2006, served as Coordinator of the Conference on Criminal Justice Education in 1996 and as President of the New York State Political Science Association in that same year.
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