Key Associates

Police Involved Shootings
This area of expertise includes all aspects of police involved shootings: Law, Tactics, Training, and reconstructing the incident. The reconstruction can involve ballistics and other forensic evidence interpretation.

Nonlethal Force
Nonlethal force includes chemical agents, empty hand control tactics, canine intervention, and use of police weapons other than firearms. Incidents are evaluated to determine if an officer's actions conform with the law, accepted police tactics, and police training.

Incident Reconstruction
Reconstruction of an incident can involve the use of ballistics and other forensic evidence interpretation to determine what actually happened in an incident.

Use of Force Training and Policies
We will review current use of force training programs and policies and analyze them for effectiveness, applicability, and legal sufficiency. Training in these areas is also offered.

Agency Review of Use of Force Incidents
We will review the procedures for tracking use of force incidents and recommend ways to integrate the data from these incidents into legally sufficient policies and improved training curricula.

Experts Available to Consult in Use of Force

Roger L. Carroll

A twenty-seven year veteran of the Baltimore Police Department, rising to the rank of Detective Sergeant. He spent twenty-five of those years in the Internal Investigation Division and a majority of that time supervising the investigation of police involved shootings. He conceived, developed, and implemented the procedures for the first Internal Investigation Division Unit responsible for the investigation of police involved shootings.

Charles L. Coleman

Officer Coleman is currently the canine officer for the Millington, Tennessee Police Department. He has nine years of canine handling experience, which has included over one hundred arrests for narcotic related incidents and over fifty arrests for robberies, burglaries, etc. with his dog. He has attended in excess of one thousand hours in canine handling training. Officer Coleman is currently certified by the National Narcotic Dog Detector Association and the Mid-South Police K-9 Association in basic patrol work, narcotics detection, and tracking. He and his dog placed second in the national competition for the year 2000 National Narcotic Dog Detector Association and took the Top Gun Award. He is vice-president for the state of Tennessee of the Mid-South Police K-9 Association.

Charles J. Key

Nearly twenty-six years experience with the Baltimore Police Department, ascending to the rank of Lieutenant. During his career, he served as a squad sergeant and Training Coordinator for the Special Weapons and Tactics Unit. In his last ten years, he served as the Commanding Officer of the Firearms Training Unit. In that capacity he analyzed over five hundred police involved shootings and responded to the scene of more than a hundred. He wrote the department's policy on use of lethal force and the resolution of sniper, barricade, and hostage situations. He has lectured at various universities and taught police use of force to thousands of federal, state, local police officers, and hundreds of civilians in numerous states. Mr. Key has consulted in hundreds of use of force cases and has been qualified numerous times in federal and state courts as an expert in use of force and related subjects. He, also, was featured by NBC Dateline as an expert in a police shooting case and has been named as an expert in the Ruby Ridge, Idaho case. Shortly before he retired, Mr. Key wrote the protocol regulating the review of uses of force and establishing a use of force review board for the agency.

Timothy J. Longo

Mr. Longo is an attorney who rose to the rank of Colonel in the Baltimore Police Department. He is currently a consultant and an adjunct professor in the Department of Sociology at Towson University, Towson, Maryland. He served in various assignments in the Baltimore Police Department, including the Internal Investigation Division and the Education and Training Division. While in the Internal Investigation Division, he supervised and reviewed the investigations of police uses of force, including police involved shootings. During his tenure at the Education and Training Division, he taught recruits, in-service personnel, and supervisors the law specific to police use of force. His duties as a squad sergeant, lieutenant, and District Commander, where he was responsible for the performance of two hundred officers, required that he investigate and evaluate hundreds of use of force incidents.

Edwin W. Schillo

Lieutenant Schillo has twenty-six years with the Baltimore Police Department. During that time, he served twelve years with the special weapons and tactics unit, including two years as its supervisor and training coordinator. He also was assigned to the Education and Training Division for eight years as the Supervisor of the Skills section. During that time, he was qualified as a firearms instructor and taught officer survival tactics and self-defense to officers.

Key Associates
1628 Zinks Mill School Road
Vesuvius, VA 24483

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