Jonathan Wender has over 20 years of experience as a police officer and interdisciplinary social scientist. Jonathan is an expert in face-to-face social interaction, particularly in critical, high risk situations. He develops and implements training programs that integrate social and tactical skills. Jonathan helped develop and launch the Strategic Social Interaction Modules (SSIM) Program at the Defense Advanced Research Projects (DARPA), and served with the program as senior advisor.  Jonathan is widely recognized as a subject-matter expert on police-community interactions, police use of force, officer decision-making, police training, and other related topics. Jonathan is the author of Policing and the Poetics of Everyday Life, a multidisciplinary analysis of police-community encounters.