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Cooper has worked as an FBI Profiler, Law Enforcement Administrator, Police Training/Instructor, University/College Professor, and an International and Domestic Threat Assessment Advisor. He is an expert in Criminal Profiling, Prescriptive Interviewing and Interrogation, Investigations, and Multi-Agency Investigative Task Force consultation. Cooper has given Expert Witness testimony based on his work in serial crimes and cases involving homicide, sexual assault, kidnapping, terrorism, political corruption, white collar crime, product tampering, abduction, arson, and bombing.
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Publications
Cooper is an accomplished author and co-authored the Crime Classification Manual, a landmark book classifying homicide, arson, and sexual assault. [Lexington Press, 1992]
Predators: Who They Are and How to Stop Them - Cooper’s eye-opening look into the mind and methods of a range of criminals from pedophiles to rape-bind-torture masterminds. The levels of criminal activity, with associated motivations, triggers, and identification, are a must read in this day where cybercrime meets violent crime. [Prometheus Books, 2007; 2nd Addition 2022]
He is the co-author of Analyzing Criminal Behavior I and II, [IQ Press, 2002] and Who Killed King Tut? [Prometheus Press, 2004]
Cooper’s work as an expert witness in crime scene analysis was highlighted in the New York Times best seller, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas New York: Scribner 1995.
Journal of Forensic Nursing (2006); Interviewing The Incarcerated Offender Convicted of Sexually assaulting the Elderly.
More Cases and Counting
With over 40 years of expertise in the law enforcement, legal, corporate, and educational communities, Cooper has consulted internationally with law enforcement agencies on topics including homicides, rapes, kidnapping, product tampering, extortion, political corruption, arson and bombing, workplace violence, stalking and false allegations.
He has provided a myriad of specific services including information procurement for probable cause on search warrants, investigative strategy, interview/interrogation techniques, prosecution strategy, threat assessments, communication content analyses, criminal investigative analyses (profiles of unknown offenders) and major case management.
He is an international speaker, trainer, and consultant in crime analysis, crisis management, negligent security matters, management science, criminal profiling, prescriptive interviewing, police management, and violent crime investigations.
Cooper is routinely called as an expert witness in criminal behavior analysis and police procedure and civil rights issues. His expert testimony behaviorally linked multiple homicides from separate jurisdictions contributing to the conviction of a serial killer, featured in a New York Times bestseller, Mind Hunter [Douglas, Olshaker, Simon & Schuster, 1995].
He took part in the 2019 NETFLIX five-part docuseries The Confession Killer an American true crime documentary. The plot revolves around the 1983 case of Henry Lee Lucas who confessed to over 200 murders in the United States. Years after his admissions, they turned out to be lies.
Career Path... Where it Leads
Cooper started as a Police Officer in Provo, Utah. He then served as Police Chief in Delta, Utah. From Delta, he entered the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serving in various investigative and supervisory positions in Seattle, Washington and Los Angeles, California. He then returned to Quantico as a Criminal Profiler in the Behavioral Science Unit, FBI Academy.
While assigned to the FBI Academy and Critical Incident Response Group, he served in several positions within the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. He was also Manager of the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP). He then became Acting Unit Chief of the Behavioral Profiling Unit and was also an FBI National Academy Instructor of Criminal Psychology, Criminal Investigative Analysis and Analytical Aspects of Criminal Behavior.
Cooper returned to Provo, Utah, to become the Police Chief and Civil Defense Director. He also served as a venue member of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Command staff. He then continued his federal experience as Assistant Federal Security Director for Law Enforcement with the US Department of Homeland Security.
Cooper served as the Manager of the Investigative Support Services Division of Motorola, Inc. where he oversaw the development and implementation of intuitive-based investigative software applications for violent crime, crime analysis, and major case investigations.
Cooper has taught at the Utah Police Academy, University of Virginia, Boston College and adjunct faculty member at Utah Valley University, Salt Lake Community College and provides curriculum and training for the federally mandated Operation Lady Justice Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives. He has provided onsite support and training worldwide to law enforcement agencies in crime analysis, investigations, and criminal behavior.
He also served as Chairman of the Board of the Utah County Major Crimes Task Force and was a board member of both the Utah Council on Victims and the Massachusetts State Police Behavioral Science Unit. Additionally, he is a member of several professional associations including the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
Cooper is an accomplished author and co-authored the Crime Classification Manual, a landmark book classifying homicide, arson, and sexual assault. [Lexington Press, 1992]
Predators: Who They Are and How to Stop Them - Cooper’s eye-opening look into the mind and methods of a range of criminals from pedophiles to rape-bind-torture masterminds. The levels of criminal activity, with associated motivations, triggers, and identification, are a must read in this day where cybercrime meets violent crime. [Prometheus Books, 2007; 2nd Addition 2022]
He is the co-author of Analyzing Criminal Behavior I and II, [IQ Press, 2002] and Who Killed King Tut? [Prometheus Press, 2004]
Cooper’s work as an expert witness in crime scene analysis was highlighted in the New York Times best seller, Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas New York: Scribner 1995.
Journal of Forensic Nursing (2006); Interviewing The Incarcerated Offender Convicted of Sexually assaulting the Elderly.
More Cases and Counting
With over 40 years of expertise in the law enforcement, legal, corporate, and educational communities, Cooper has consulted internationally with law enforcement agencies on topics including homicides, rapes, kidnapping, product tampering, extortion, political corruption, arson and bombing, workplace violence, stalking and false allegations.
He has provided a myriad of specific services including information procurement for probable cause on search warrants, investigative strategy, interview/interrogation techniques, prosecution strategy, threat assessments, communication content analyses, criminal investigative analyses (profiles of unknown offenders) and major case management.
He is an international speaker, trainer, and consultant in crime analysis, crisis management, negligent security matters, management science, criminal profiling, prescriptive interviewing, police management, and violent crime investigations.
Cooper is routinely called as an expert witness in criminal behavior analysis and police procedure and civil rights issues. His expert testimony behaviorally linked multiple homicides from separate jurisdictions contributing to the conviction of a serial killer, featured in a New York Times bestseller, Mind Hunter [Douglas, Olshaker, Simon & Schuster, 1995].
He took part in the 2019 NETFLIX five-part docuseries The Confession Killer an American true crime documentary. The plot revolves around the 1983 case of Henry Lee Lucas who confessed to over 200 murders in the United States. Years after his admissions, they turned out to be lies.
Career Path... Where it Leads
Cooper started as a Police Officer in Provo, Utah. He then served as Police Chief in Delta, Utah. From Delta, he entered the Federal Bureau of Investigation, serving in various investigative and supervisory positions in Seattle, Washington and Los Angeles, California. He then returned to Quantico as a Criminal Profiler in the Behavioral Science Unit, FBI Academy.
While assigned to the FBI Academy and Critical Incident Response Group, he served in several positions within the National Center for the Analysis of Violent Crime. He was also Manager of the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (VICAP). He then became Acting Unit Chief of the Behavioral Profiling Unit and was also an FBI National Academy Instructor of Criminal Psychology, Criminal Investigative Analysis and Analytical Aspects of Criminal Behavior.
Cooper returned to Provo, Utah, to become the Police Chief and Civil Defense Director. He also served as a venue member of the 2002 Salt Lake Olympic Command staff. He then continued his federal experience as Assistant Federal Security Director for Law Enforcement with the US Department of Homeland Security.
Cooper served as the Manager of the Investigative Support Services Division of Motorola, Inc. where he oversaw the development and implementation of intuitive-based investigative software applications for violent crime, crime analysis, and major case investigations.
Cooper has taught at the Utah Police Academy, University of Virginia, Boston College and adjunct faculty member at Utah Valley University, Salt Lake Community College and provides curriculum and training for the federally mandated Operation Lady Justice Presidential Task Force on Missing and Murdered American Indians and Alaska Natives. He has provided onsite support and training worldwide to law enforcement agencies in crime analysis, investigations, and criminal behavior.
He also served as Chairman of the Board of the Utah County Major Crimes Task Force and was a board member of both the Utah Council on Victims and the Massachusetts State Police Behavioral Science Unit. Additionally, he is a member of several professional associations including the International Association of Chiefs of Police.
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