AELE Expert Witness/Litigation Consultant Listing

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Name: Krosch, Calvin L.

Birth date: May 26, 1941

Current employer or professional affiliation:

Owner, Veritas Investigations, Inc. (2 years)

Address: P.O. Box 5935

Bend, OR 97708-5935

Telephone: (541) 330-6161

Fax: (541) 385-7636

E-mail: veritas@coinet.com

Internet Website: N/A

(1) Relevant prior employment, with dates:

• July 1962-July 1992. San Diego Police Department, retired as Assistant Chief of Police (Chief of Detectives)
• January 1994-April 1995. Director, Deschutes County, Oregon, 9-1-1 Dispatch Center.
• July 1992 to present. Law enforcement expert witness and litigation consultant.
• May 1996 to present. Owner, Veritas Investigations, Inc.
• January 1998 to present. Member, Oregon Board of Investigators. (Appointed by Oregon Governor John Kitzhaber, confirmed by Oregon State Senate.)

(2) Degrees and relevant special training:

• Bachelor of Sc ience Degree in Public Administration, Pacific Western Univ.
• 2,500+ hours of specialized law enforcement training
• Awarded California Commission on Peace Officer Standards and Training certificates: Basic, Intermediate, Supervisory, Middle Management and Executive

(3) Other professional activities, etc.

• Member, Deschutes County Commission on Children and Families (Appointed by the Presiding Circuit Court Judge and the County Commission. The last two years I have served as the Chair.)
• Former member and President of the Boys and Girl s Club of Bend Board of Directors.

(4) Retainer information:

• Appx. number of times retained by claimant s counsel: One
• Appx. number of times retained by defense counsel: Ten
  

(5) Names, addresses and telephone numbers of attorneys who may be contacted as references:

Guy Bogdanovich
Law, Lyman, Daniel, Kamerrer & Bogdanovich, PC
910 Lakeridge Way, S.W.
Olympia, WA 98508-1880
(360) 754-3480

Donald L. Law
Law, Lyman, Daniel, Kamerrer & Bogdanovich, P C
910 Lakeridge Way, S.W.
Olympia, WA 98508-1880
(360) 754-3480

Mark S. Northcraft
Northcraft & Tierney, PC
Suite 3300
One Union Square
600 University Street
Seattle, WA 98101-1129
(206) 623-0229

Sharon Baldwin
Assistant Corporation Counsel
City of Chicago
Suite 900
30 North LaSalle Street
Chicago, Illinois 60602-2580
(312) 744-6919

Mike Early
Assistant Corporation Counsel
City of Chicago
Suite 900
30 North LaSalle Street
Chicago, Illinois 60602-2580
(312) 744-6073

Alison J. Chinn
Assistant City Attorney
City of Vancouver
210 East 13th Street
Vancouver, WA 98668-1995
(360) 696-8251

Bruce Bischof
Attorney at Law
377 SW Century Drive
Bend, OR 97702
(541) 389-1292

(6) Publications that contain your paid advertisements: None

(7) Usual and customary fee:

$150.00 per hour (including review of case materials, travel portal to portal, testimony, and preparation of opinions), reimbursement for expenses (travel at coach rate), four hour minimum for testimony at deposition or trial.

(8) AREAS OF EXPERTISE AND EXPERIENCE

Note - Letter codes used in front of the subject mean:
[ T ] Testified in court or at depositions on the subject;
[ R ] Retained as a consultant, but have not testified on the subject.
[ Q ] Qualified to testify or consult on the subject, but have not served as a paid consultant.

[ T] Police use of force

[T] Police custody deaths

[T] Agency policies, practices and customs

[Q] Administrative negligence

[Q] Standards for discipline, internal affairs procedures

[R] Deadly force

(9) Types of cases you will not accept:

To be determined on a case by case basis.

(10) Other information relevant in evaluating your services

I have extensive experience in the field of Internal Affairs investigations and the review and investigation of police shooting incidents (over 200). I directed a major study of police custody deaths for the San Diego Police Department in 1992. The report of that study has been widely disseminated and has been widely utilized in litigation.

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