Travis Norton is a retired 25-year law enforcement professional. He is a skilled police lieutenant and SWAT Commander and has trained officers in police practices nationwide. Travis was the training division and professional standards unit lieutenant for a mid-size police agency and was responsible for the police academy, field training program, in-service training, officer misconduct investigations, and use of force reviews and investigations. Travis has been an instructor for over 15 years in tactical science, active shooter response, de-escalation, less-lethal weapons, SWAT, critical incident response, chemical agents, and crowd management. He currently instructs for the National Tactical Officers Association (NTOA) and the California Association of Tactical Officers (CATO).

Travis is the Strategy Development Chair for the NTOA and a member of the NTOA Tactical Response and Operations Standard for Law Enforcement Agencies. He was selected as an active shooter SME by the National Policing Institute (NPI) and Safe and Sound Schools for several active shooter reviews and leads a critical incident review team for CATO. These positions provide Travis the opportunity to review active shooter incidents and officer-involved shootings nationwide and abroad. Since 2020, he has been a guest lecturer in police practices and use of force at the University of Southern California (USC).

Travis is a doctoral candidate in Policy, Planning, and Development at USC and holds a master’s degree from California State University of Long Beach in Emergency Services Administration.

Over the past four years, Travis has provided consulting and expert witness services to several large metropolitan agencies in tactical operations, officer-involved shootings, use of force, crowd control, chemical agents, and less lethal. He also has experience working with agencies that are under federal consent decrees.

Education:

• Doctoral Candidate in Policy, Planning, and Development at the University of Southern California – Graduate 08-2024
• Master of Science in Emergency Services Administration – California State University at Long Beach (outstanding thesis award).