Greetings! My name is Dr. Michael D. George.

My interest in the Polarities of Democracy model lies in it serving as a theoretical framework for the democratization of workplaces and communities.

My research and expertise areas are in high visibility enforcement, community law enforcement issues, community programs and media campaigns related to traffic safety issues, underage drinking enforcement and education, qualitative research, community assessment, data collection related to substance abuse and traffic safety issues, community policing, trend analysis, community and state collaboration, occupant protection issues. I believe an understanding of the Polarities model promotes partnerships and increases collaboration so that communities and organizations can work to increase public health disparities and public safety issues.

I have worked full-time in the law enforcement field since 1981, either as a sworn officer or in a non-sworn training, research, and consulting capacity with law enforcement.

I am currently employed in the PIRE – Columbia, South Carolina office as the Program Manager, where I coordinate various trainings on underage drinking enforcement and education-related topics, and provide technical assistance to the alcohol teams based in the 16 South Carolina Judicial Circuits.

I am also actively engaged in education. I serve as an adjunct professor at the Technical College of the Lowcountry in Beaufort, South Carolina and Columbia College in Columbia, South Carolina; and I am an evaluator on student class assignments at Patten University in Oakland, South Carolina, where I facilitate undergraduate as well as graduate level courses in public administration and criminal justice. I first taught as an adjunct instructor in 1993 and began teaching online as an adjunct in 2007.

I previously served as the Senior Law Enforcement Liaison in the SCDPS Office of Highway Safety, as the Chief with the Investigative Unit in public housing communities, and a Drug Investigator with local law enforcement task forces in Alabama.

In each position, I worked to maintain collaborations with key partners addressing state, county, or community level public safety and public health issues.