Jim Burack is the police chief in Milliken, Colorado, a diverse
community about 45 miles north of Denver. After graduating from Dartmouth
College, he served as a police officer with the Westminster, CO police
department, and later earned a law degree from the University of Colorado.
He served on active duty with the U.S. Marine Corps as a judge advocate,
including service as a Special Assistant U.S. Attorney in Southern California.
He is currently a major in the Marine Corps Reserve assigned to a unit
in the Department of Defense Inspector General’s Office that oversees military
law enforcement and criminal investigations. He worked on the planning
staff of the United Nations International Police Task Force in Bosnia,
and later as a Marine commanded a Civil Affairs unit on the NATO peacekeeping
mission in Kosovo in 1999. For the past six years he has been Counsel
and Director of Operations with the Police Executive Research Forum, an
internationally known non-profit police research and consulting organization
and association of police executives.