Dr. Thaddeus L. Johnson, a former law enforcement official in Tennessee, is an Associate Professor of Criminal Justice & Criminology at the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies at Georgia State University. A policing, crime control, and governance equity expert, he has conducted extensive research on police lethality and coercion, street violence, federal law enforcement interventions, AI-enabled surveillance, and correctional control. Johnson is also a Senior Fellow at the Council on Criminal Justice.