Jason Potts is the president and a co-founding member of the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing. He also serves as chief/director of the City of Las Vegas Department of Public Safety, which provides law enforcement and detention services, manages the city jail and oversees deputy city marshals and animal protection services.
Potts began his municipal policing career with the Vallejo Police Department in Northern California, where he rose to the rank of captain. He holds a master’s degree in Criminology, Law, and Society from the University of California, Irvine, and is an alumnus of the National Institute of Justice’s Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science (LEADS) Program through the U.S. Department of Justice.
He is a member of the Council on Criminal Justice’s Violent Crime Working Group, the Futures Policing Institute and is a National Policing Institute fellow. In June 2019, he was honored at George Mason University’s Evidence-Based Policing Hall of Fame for his impactful work in promoting and implementing evidence-based practices both nationally and within his department.
