I retired in December 2024 as Chief of Police of the El Cajon Police Department in San Diego County, California, after 29 years with the department and five as chief. My career ran through SWAT, investigations, gang and narcotics enforcement, community policing, internal affairs, training, and personnel. As chief, I led technology adoption for the department and answered for those decisions in front of councils, community groups, and the press.

Public safety technology fails for predictable reasons. Products get built without understanding the workflows they land in. Messaging gets written for investors instead of practitioners. Pilots get designed to produce a press release instead of evidence. I watched all of it from the buying side of the table, and I started Moulton Consulting Group to fix it from the other side.

My value to clients is judgment: knowing how a chief reads a pitch, what a city council will ask, what a union will challenge, what a community meeting will demand, and what a product has to do at 2 a.m. to keep the officers using it.

I am a Fellow at the Future Policing Institute. My writing appears in Police Chief Magazine, Police1, The Hill, and Government Technology, and I speak at industry and government conferences, including the League of California Cities Annual Conference.