Curriculum Vitae of:

DETECTIVE John H. Pride
Los Angeles Police Department
23-years (Retired) March, 1993

FIREARMS BACKGROUND

• Industrial arts major, machining and designing.
• 3 years ROTC, rifle team and firearms training. -US army for 3-years, received medical training and served with the 101st Airborne Division in Vietnam, as a medic and have seen many types of wounds caused by small arms projectiles and high explosives. AWARDED: THE BRONZE STAR AND THE COMBAT MEDICAL BADGE. Honorably discharged in September, 1969.

  POLICE EXPERIENCE:

• Joined the Los Angeles Police Department in 1970 and received 95 hours of firearms training in handgun and shotgun shooting in addition to maintenance. Five years as a field patrol police officer.

  INSTRUCTOR EXPERIENCE:

• Police firearms instructor at the Los Angeles Police Department for 10-years and trained over 4000 regular and reserve police officers.
• Received training handgun and shotgun repair at the police armory, and worked in the armory in gun repair.
• Conducted ballistic experiments on body armor and vehicles using all caliber's and types of projectiles.
• Was a training officer while working the Tactics Unit; Officer survival and use of force.

  SCIENTIFIC INVESTIGATION:

• Transferred to Scientific Investigation unit in 1983 to receive training in forensic firearms and explosives. Attended the FBI bomb technician school.
• At the LAPD firearms lab, received in excess of 300 hours of initial laboratory training in ballistics, including testing of evidence firearms, type and caliber's of bullets, gun shot residue analysis and microscopy . Since then I have completed over 2100 cases pertaining to LAPD, Coroner and private cases related to civil and criminal matters. Have in excess of 5,000 hours of microscopy experience.
• Assist with production of LAPD training films/shooting vehicles and observing effects of different projectiles.
• Lecture at detective schools and train new criminalists in the field of ballistics and firearms analysis.

  EXPERT COURT TESTIMONY:

• Testified two times as a bomb, Hazardous devices expert.
• Have testified in Superior, Federal and Municipal court as an expert firearms examiner in excess of 210 times; as well as give expert testimony in civil depositions.

  SCHOOLS ATTENDED:

• FBI range master and instructor school/ 1976
• Smith and Wesson semiautomatic instructor school/1986
• Smith and Wesson revolver armorer school / 1987
• Smith and Wesson semiautomatic armorer school / 1987
• FBI hazardous devices school / REDSTONE ARSENAL / ALABAMA 1983
• Valley Jr. College; Homicide investigations, laws of evidence, and municipal police management.
• Toured Colt, Ruger, and Smith and Wesson Manufacturing plants/ 1987
• Toured the Australia National firearms lab at Canberra Australia./ 1989/1990.
• Toured the Taiwan National scientific and firearms laboratory while teaching a police class in Taiwan.
• Received a 3-day school on wound trauma from Dr. Martin Fackler, Colonel U.S. Army Retired.
• Took Administration of Justice courses at Valley Jr. College

  TRADE ASSOCIATIONS:

• Life member of the National Rifle Association
• Annual member of AFTE (Association of firearms and tool mark Examiners).
• International Police Firearms Trainers.
• International Wound Ballistics Association.

  CONSULTANT:

• In 1986, designed and implemented the 9MM pistol program for the Los Angeles Police Department; over 5,000 officers have completed the pistol program and the LAPD adopted the semiautomatic pistol as its primary duty firearm.
• Consulted for Smith and Wesson in demonstrating 9MM pistols in the Republic of China, Taiwan, and subsequently taught transitional pistol programs to the Taiwan National Police.
• Consultant to PMC Eldorado Bullet Company.
• Consultant to Safariland LTD, police products company / lectures to the Australian state and National police departments, and gave pistol transitional schools to the Queensland Police / 1996.
• Consultant to Tasco Scope and Laser sight company.
• Consultant to the Singapore Police and gave advanced officer survival and holster class to the police instructors/ 1996.
• Currently a consultant to Armor Holdings Co. major mfr. Of police and less lethal products.

  COMPETITIVE SHOOTER:

• Action shooting national champion 1987/88/94/95 (Bianchi Cup).
• California State Police Champion for 12-years.
• 1984 International Police Champion.
• 1983/85/87 Canadian National police champion.
• 1990 Australian Action shooting champion.
• 1992 /94 NRA National Police Pistol Champion.
• 1995 Australia Canberra International Match champion.
• Member of the LAPD 1994/1997 World Police Champion Team.
• Member of the LAPD 2002 World Police Champion Team.

  TEACHING CREDENTIAL:

• Hold a California community colleges life time teaching credential.
• Teach part time at Rio Hondo College, at Pico Rivera.
• California P.O.S.T. certified police firearms instructor.
• Georgia State P.O.S.T. certified firearms instructor.
• Trained new firearms examiners /criminalists for LAPD/ SID.

  TRAINING VIDEOS PRODUCED:

• Basic to Bullseyes / a semiautomatic pistol training film.
• Winning PPC/ Police competition training film.
• Action Shooting tape/ how to shoot professional action shooting.
• Police Pistol Instructor/3-tapes ; how to teach police officers the transition from revolvers to semiautomatic pistols. Above listed videos are sold internationally and utilized by schools and police academies throughout the world.

  MENTAL CONDITIONING BOOK:

• The Pride Method/ Mind Over Matter, a guide to mental preparation for international competition and dealing with match pressure, and officer survival as it pertains to high-stress related street confrontations.

  AWARDS:

• Received a resolution from the Los Angeles City Council in 1981 for my contribution to the citizens of Los Angeles for teaching firearms safety classes during a time when many citizens were purchasing firearms for self-protection.
• Have received 16-consecutive State of California Assembly resolutions for my accomplishments in Police competition in the State of California.
• In 1991, received the Shooter of the Decade award by the Los Angeles Police Revolver and Athletic Club, for my competitive accomplishments internationally as well as in the United States from 1980 to 1990.
• In 1995 I was inducted into the LAPD Revolver and Athletics Club HALL OF FAME.

  EXPERT WITNESS AND INSTRUCTOR:

• Have worked as a defense and prosecution witness in areas of explosives, police tactics, use of force, and civilian use of deadly force.
• Extensive background in crime scene investigations, and follow-up forensic examinations pertaining to ballistics and firearms analysis and evidence.
  • Examinations/evidence collection and preservation.
  • Type and caliber of evidence bullets and expended cartridge cases.
  • Trajectory analysis and shooting-scene reconstruction.
  • Distance determinations/ Gun shot residue detection and chemical testing.
  • Laser-trajectory analysis.
  Tactics and Use of Force. Have testified in Use of Force Hearings and Depositions as defense expert in Civil Suits against City of Los Angeles. Taught Tactics and Use of Force during 10-years as instructor at The Los Angeles Police Department Academy. Have testified in Retrial hearing in San Diego in the area of Use of Force and the Stress confrontation and the subject of The Psychology of Post Traumatic Stress Syndrome as well the effects during life and death situation such as shootings. Have conducted hundreds of officer involved shooting scenes and reconstructed the shootings as a result of analyzing the firearms evidence. Have conducted numerous submachine gun/ and pistol classes for military and police agencies.
  
  
  BOMB EXPERTISE:

• Have worked on crime scene investigations pertaining to explosive devices and have testified in court in the prosecutions of suspects.
• Have received extensive training and cross training with FBI Investigators in terrorists activities methods of operation.

  CONTRIBUTING WRITER:

• American Handgunner Magazine (international publication)
• Guns and Ammo Magazine (international publication)
• Guns Magazine (international publication)
• American Shotgunner
• Police Marksman Magazine
• Gun Games Magazine (international publication)