Bill Tafoya, Ph.D. FBI (Ret)
Professor, National Security
University of New Haven(CT)
William L. Tafoya, Ph.D, is Professor of National Security at University of New Haven in Connecticut. Previously he served in the Office of Homeland Security, Computer Science Corporation in Falls Church, Virginia & before that was Director of Research for the Office of International Criminal Justice at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Internationally recognized, he is an authority on the law enforcement use of high technology & the future of policing.
Bill has lectured at numerous universities & in several nations. On leave of absence from the FBI for 12 months (July 1989 – July 1990), he served as a Congressional Research Fellow for the 101st Congress in Washington, DC. There he conducted research on the police use of high technology as well as future crime. He remains the only law enforcement officer ever selected to serve in this capacity on behalf of the U. S. Congress. Bill also founded the Society of Police Futurists International in 1991.
Prior to his retirement from the FBI (June 1995) he was assigned in Washington, DC, Quantico, Virginia, & San Francisco, California. For 11 years (1980 – 1991) at the FBI Academy, Bill served as a senior faculty member of the Computer Crimes Unit & the Behavioral Science Units. In 1981 he created the first graduate-level Futures Research in the nation specifically for law enforcement. In 1990 he created the first Ph.D.-level course at the FBI Academy—in Futures Research.
Bill was the first law enforcement officer to make investigative use of the Internet & its World Wide Web (1993). He did this a mere 11 months after Mosaic, the first browser (precursor to today’s Netscape), became available. Bill also created the FBI’s UNABOMber (December 1993) & Oklahoma City bombing (April 1995) web pages.
He holds academic degrees from San Jose State University (Bachelors 1973), University of Southern California (Masters 1974), & University of Maryland (Ph.D. 1986).
Bill has published widely and has been interviewed extensively by the media. He has appeared on every major network television news program. He has been featured three times in U. S. News & World Report. Twice (April 1996 & November 1997) regarding his psychological profile of the UNABOMber, Ted Kaczynski, and once (January 1995) in a cover story entitled “Is Anything Safe in Cyberspace?”
At University of New Haven Bill teaches National Security graduate courses & Forensic Computer Investigations courses as well as graduate course in Futures Research. His research interests include Counterintelligence & Intelligence Analysis.
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