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Executive Director
Family Support Organization of Union County
Plainfield, New Jersey
Dr. De Lacy Davis has been the executive director of the Family Support Organization of Union County, Plainfield, N.J., since 2013. Dr. Davis, a change agent who uses organizational behavioral models to drive change and to build organizational change to improve effectiveness and efficiency. He is the executive director of the New Jersey Alliance of Family Support Organizations where he and his staff are responsible for providing peer support partner training/certification and technical support to 15 New Jersey FSOs. Dr. Davis served as a Newark, N.J., school principal for five years.
Dr. Davis founded Black Cops Against Police Brutality in 1991 and is the author of Black Cops Against Police Brutality: A Crisis Action Plan. Most recently, Dr. Davis dissertation research examined the factors relating to police officers shooting unarmed black males. He is a retired New Jersey police sergeant who served for 20 years in the East Orange police department.
Dr. Davis has appeared on News One Now with Roland Martin, Nightline, C-Span, Oprah, Maury Povitch, Like It Is with Gil Noble, NBC's Positively Black, MSNBC, Hard Ball, Due Process, Good Day NY, The Black Experience and CBS Morning Show. His global advocacy work includes a mission to Rome, Italy, with the Under Our Wings Delegation to meet with Pope John Paul II along with parents of juveniles in America who had been executed or sentenced to life without parole in the United States. Dr. Davis has traveled to Ghana, West Africa, as a guest of Pres.John A. Kufuor. He traveled to the Republic of South Africa as a NBPA Law Enforcement Delegate to establish community police training. He has traveled to Havana, Cuba, on a humanitarian mission with Pastors for Peace.
He is a former instructor at the Essex County Police Academy and a New Jersey State-Certified firearms instructor. He has served as the vice president of the Police Benevolent Association, Local #16, and the executive director of the East Orange Police Athletic League. He served on former New Jersey Governor Jim McGreevey's Transition Team for the Department of Corrections.
In 1994, Sergeant Davis was awarded the prestigious Renault Robinson Award by the National Black Police Association. Dr. Davis has served as the Northeast Region President of the NBPA (1996-2000). He served as the organization's International Council Representative servicing Bermuda, Canada, Jamaica and England.<
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Monday, April 11, 2022
4:15 PM – 5:15 PM
