Gregory B. MacAleese
Greg, 59, is the founder of the highly successful Crime Stoppers anti-crime program. Working as a violent crimes detective with the Albuquerque Police Department in 1976, MacAleese was convinced that a lack of public involvement was a major reason for the city's exceptionally high crime rate. He identified two major reasons why most citizens did not want to get involved in fighting crime - fear and apathy. He designed Crime Stoppers to specifically attack these two problems.

To overcome a citizen's fear about retaliation from the criminal element, he developed a system in which people can call a special number, tell what they know about a crime, and remain completely anonymous. To overcome apathy, he created a reward program that pays cash for information that leads to the solution of a crime and the arrest of a suspect. The reward fund is comprised entirely of donations from the community and is administered by a civilian board of directors.

MacAleese also wanted to make his new program - which he named Crime Stoppers - as high-profile as possible. Each week he would select an unsolved crime and reenact it for television, broadcast a 60-second synopsis of the crime for radio, and write an in-depth story about the crime and the victims for newspapers. Crime Stoppers became an instant success. The first crime selected as the "Crime of the Week" - the killing of a young gas station attendant - was solved within 48 hours after the reenactment was shown on television. In the first year of operation 298 major cases were solved through calls from citizens.

In 1977, MacAleese was selected as the National Police Officer of the Year by the International Association of Chiefs of Police. In 1984, Esquire Magazine selected him as one of 200 people under the age of 40 who had made a significant difference in America. MacAleese was in the forefront of advancing the expansion of Crime Stoppers throughout the world. Today there are more than 1,500 local Crime Stoppers in 24 countries around the world. More than 1,000,000 major crimes have been solved by Crime Stoppers programs and almost $7 billion worth of stolen property and narcotics has been recovered. The programs have paid out more than $70 million in rewards. Crime Stoppers was used as the model for "America's Most Wanted" television series and "Unsolved Mysteries." In 1991, he was presented with the FBI Director's "Community Leadership Award" for his crime fighting efforts.

Currently, MacAleese is working on a book about the history Crime Stoppers and he has joined with Richard Carter to develop the M/C Training Institute. In addition to his work on Crime Stoppers, MacAleese has also produced a number of television specials about crime, including an Emmy-award winning series about the effects of illegal drugs. He is also a very active inventor and holds four patents on technologies designed for law enforcement and the military. He resides in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

He served two terms as Chair of the Texas Crime Stoppers Advisory Council under Texas Governors White and Clements.

Richard Carter is the former County Attorney of Hunt County, Texas (Greenville), and former Police Legal Advisor of the Waco Police Department. He is a past Chair of the Legal Officers Section of the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and the Municipal Judges Section of the State Bar of Texas.

Richard Carter is a former member of the faculty of the Journalism Department of Baylor University, and has also taught law enforcement courses at several other colleges and universities.

He has written numerous articles published in law enforcement periodicals, and is the author of several books, including: Court Security for Judges, Bailiffs & Other Court Personnel; The Crime Stoppers Case Digest (Volumes I & II); All Known Crime Stoppers Statutes with Commentary; and Sometimes Justice.

Judge Carter has been active in Crime Stoppers since 1981, when Crime Stoppers founder Greg MacAleese recruited him to assist in training Crime Stoppers volunteers and professionals. In June of 1992, he received a "Certificate of Special Congressional Recognition" for his work in crime prevention.

In addition to his work with Crime Stoppers, Richard Carter represents law enforcement officers for the Combined Law Enforcement Associations of Texas (C.L.E.A.T.); and serves as General Counsel for Texas Police Athletic Federation, Inc. (Police Olympics); and is on the board of directors of MassTech USA, Inc. and TipSoft Pro, Inc.

Richard Carter enjoys playing tambourines/percussion and singing backup vocals for professional bands and recording artists in his spare time. He is an active member of Local 72-147 of the American Federation of Musicians.

He owns several companies, one of which is Anderson Software & Internet. Other ventures include Anderson Record Service, Anderson Med-Copy, Anderson Video Productions and he was a co-founder of G/K Enterprises, Inc. which developed a unique mineral-vitamin supplement designed specifically for wildlife which has recently been acquired by Tecomate Wildlife Systems.

Kevin is married and has two daughters aged 19 and 15. He is actively involved in emergency management and the pursuit of severe weather and currently serves as the ARES District Emergency Coordinator for NE TX, RACES county liaison to the state EOC and Skywarn Coordinator for East Texas, which is an extension of the National Weather Service. Kevin also created the WX-TALK web based conference server which links emergency communications repeater systems together on demand and serves as the VoIPWX Emergency Net Manager for the National Hurricane Center, which utilizes the WX-TALK technology, as does the NWS. Kevin has received numerous accolades from both the National Weather Service and the National Hurricane Center for his technological and Emergency Net Mgmt contributions, along with being specially recognized by NASA, FEMA and many other alphabet agencies for his instrumental emergency communications interoperability leadership role in the Shuttle Columbia Recovery Operations which unfortunately occurred right in his home county of Nacogdoches, Texas.

He has served on his local Crime Stoppers Board for 8 years, being Chair for 3 of those years. He has also served on the Texas Crime Stoppers Association board and is past Region 10 Director on the Crime Stoppers USA board and current Chair of CSI’s IT and Technology Committee. Kevin has served as webmaster for Nacogdoches Crime Stoppers, the Texas Crime Stoppers Association, Crime Stoppers USA and Crime Stoppers International. He is also the administrator for the National and International WebBoards and has recently taken on the role of membership database administrator for CSI and CSUSA.

Six years ago, Kevin also developed the world's leading Crime Stoppers Tip Management Software, TipSoft, which continues to help set data management standards in the industry today. Anderson Software has also recently released a cutting edge online application designed to provide the seamless integration and reception of truly secure and anonymous tips submitted through the internet and it is fast becoming yet another industry standard.