Renée J. Mitchell has worked for the Sacramento Police Department (SPD) since 1998 and is currently a sergeant in the Court Liaison Unit. Within SPD, she created several innovative programs such as the Female Fitness Challenge and CSI Sacramento; inspired the CASH (Community Against Sexual Harm) program; and developed the Community Recruiter manual and program. She was the principal investigator on a department-led, 90-day randomized control trial in hot spots policing that employed the Koper Curve theory and showed promising results.The study won the 2012 IACP/Sprint Excellence in Law Enforcement Research Silver Award.

She has a Bachelor of Science degree in psychology from the University of California, Davis; a Master of Arts in counseling psychology from the University of San Francisco; a Master of Business Administration from the California State University, Sacramento; and a Juris Doctorate from the University of the Pacific, McGeorge School of Law, where she was awarded an academic scholarship.

Mitchell was the 2009-2010 Fulbright police research fellow, attending the University of Cambridge Police Executive Programme and completing research at the London Metropolitan Police Service in juvenile gang violence. Renee is a member of the California Bar Association and the Society of Evidence-Based Policing.

Police, Social Justice, Racism