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About Proactive Prevention Strategies, LLC
Proactive Prevention Strategies, LLC helps law enforcement agencies and public safety partners move beyond reactive response by turning evidence-based policing, problem-oriented policing, and proven crime prevention strategies into practical, realistic action.
Our work is grounded in research, but shaped by real-world policing experience. Effective crime prevention does not happen in theory alone. It happens under real operational conditions — with limited staffing, competing priorities, community concerns, and the daily realities faced by officers, supervisors, analysts, and agency leaders.
PPS was founded by Michael S. Burgess, M.S.S., a retired law enforcement professional with 24 years of experience in patrol, investigations, supervision, training, and violent crime reduction. His work focuses on bridging the gap between research and practice by helping agencies understand what works, why it matters, and how to apply it in realistic and sustainable ways.
Rather than offering one-size-fits-all programs, PPS provides practical speaking, training, consulting, and implementation support tailored to the needs of each agency, community, and public safety challenge.
We work with:
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Law enforcement officers and first-line supervisors responsible for carrying out proactive strategies
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Police leaders and executives responsible for policy, funding, implementation, and long-term sustainability
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Analysts, investigators, training staff, and specialized units working to identify and address recurring problems
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Community leaders, public safety partners, and stakeholders who play a critical role in prevention
What Sets PPS Apart
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Real-world law enforcement experience, not theory alone
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Practical translation of evidence-based and problem-oriented policing
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Customized strategies built around agency needs, staffing, resources, and local crime issues
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Training and consultation that speaks to the street, the squad room, and command staff
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A focus on prevention, officer safety, community safety, reduced repeat calls, and long-term sustainability
Our mission is simple: to help law enforcement agencies and public safety partners address, deter, and prevent crime in ways that are realistic, understandable, and built to last.
To discuss speaking, training, or agency support, contact:
Michael S. Burgess, M.S.S.
Owner/Founder, Proactive Prevention Strategies, LLC
Email: mburgess@proactivepreventionstrategiesllc.com
Smarter Policing. Safer Communities.
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What Do We Do?
Proactive Prevention Strategies, LLC helps law enforcement agencies, public safety partners, and community stakeholders move from simply responding to problems toward preventing them.
We do this by helping agencies better understand recurring crime and disorder issues, identify patterns, apply evidence-based and problem-oriented strategies, and turn those strategies into realistic action steps that fit their staffing, resources, culture, and community needs.
Our work may include speaking, training, consulting, problem assessment, SARA-based planning, partnership development, grant implementation support, and practical guidance around specific crime types or recurring public safety problems.
The focus is not on theory alone. The focus is on helping agencies answer practical questions:
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What problem are we trying to solve?
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Why is it happening here, with these people, at these times, or under these conditions?
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What does the research and field experience suggest may help?
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What can our agency realistically do with the people, tools, data, and partners we have?
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How do we measure progress and adjust when needed?
PPS helps translate evidence-based policing and problem-oriented policing into plain language, practical steps, and sustainable strategies. The goal is to help agencies reduce repeat calls, prevent future harm, improve officer and community safety, and strengthen public trust.
In simple terms: we help turn good ideas into real-world action.
How Do We Do It?
PPS uses a practical, problem-solving approach built around one simple idea: being proactive requires understanding the problem before choosing the response.
We help agencies move through a clear process that can be adapted to their specific needs, crime issues, staffing realities, available resources, and community conditions.
1. Understand the Problem
Before an agency can prevent a problem, it must first understand it.
PPS helps agencies look beyond general crime categories and examine the details that matter: where problems are occurring, when they are happening, who is involved, what conditions are contributing to them, and why the issue keeps repeating.
This may include reviewing calls for service, crime reports, incident patterns, repeat locations, repeat offenders, victimization patterns, available data, officer knowledge, analyst products, and community concerns.
2. Identify What Can Be Done
Once the problem is better understood, PPS helps agencies consider practical, evidence-informed options that fit the local reality.
This may include strategies connected to the SARA model, the crime triangle, hot spots policing, focused deterrence, Crime Prevention Through Environmental Design, partnerships, problem-oriented policing, and other proactive approaches.
The goal is not to force every agency into the same model. The goal is to identify what makes sense for the specific problem, agency, community, and available resources.
3. Build a Realistic Response
Good strategies only matter if they can actually be carried out.
PPS helps agencies think through who needs to be involved, what actions need to be taken, what role officers and supervisors will play, what partners can contribute, what data or technology can support the effort, and how the response can be managed over time.
This includes focusing on strategies that officers can understand, supervisors can reinforce, leaders can support, and partners can help sustain.
4. Strengthen Partnerships
Many recurring public safety problems cannot be solved by police alone.
PPS helps agencies identify and engage the right partners, such as community leaders, schools, code enforcement, housing, probation and parole, prosecutors, service providers, educational institutions, local government, businesses, and neighborhood stakeholders.
The focus is on building practical partnerships that help address the conditions contributing to crime, disorder, repeat calls, and community harm.
5. Support Implementation and Adjustment
Proactive strategies require follow-through.
PPS helps agencies think through implementation, communication, progress tracking, officer buy-in, accountability, and adjustment. This includes helping agencies ask what is working, what is not, what needs to change, and how the strategy can be sustained beyond the initial effort.
A Practical Approach, Not a One-Size-Fits-All Program
Every agency, community, and crime problem is different. PPS helps law enforcement and public safety partners apply evidence-based and problem-oriented strategies in ways that are realistic, understandable, and adaptable.
The goal is simple: help agencies move from identifying problems to taking meaningful action that can reduce repeat calls, prevent future harm, and improve public safety.
Speaking, Training
& Agency Support
Proactive Prevention Strategies, LLC provides practical speaking, training, and consulting support for law enforcement agencies, public safety partners, professional associations, academies, conferences, and community stakeholders.
The goal is simple: help agencies move from reactive response to proactive prevention by turning evidence-based policing, problem-oriented policing, and proven crime prevention strategies into realistic action steps that officers, supervisors, analysts, leaders, and partners can actually use.
PPS does not offer one-size-fits-all training. Presentations and support can be delivered as general awareness sessions or customized around a specific agency need, crime type, recurring public safety problem, grant-funded initiative, or local community concern.
Topics and Subject Areas
Training, speaking, and consulting support can be built around topics such as:
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Practical proactive policing
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Evidence-based policing in plain language
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Problem-oriented policing and the SARA model
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Moving from reactive response to proactive prevention
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Violent crime reduction
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Firearm-related crime and shooting prevention
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Youth crime and repeat group-related problems
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Domestic violence and repeat-call prevention
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Repeat calls for service and problem locations
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Hot spots, place-based strategies, and environmental approaches
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Focused deterrence and people-based strategies
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Partnerships and stakeholder engagement
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Officer buy-in and frontline implementation
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First-line supervisor roles in proactive policing
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Using data, analysis, and technology in practical ways
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Grant implementation and sustainability
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Turning agency goals into action plan
Built for Real-World Policing
PPS training and support is grounded in research, but focused on practice. The purpose is not to overwhelm officers or agencies with theory. The purpose is to help public safety professionals better understand what works, why it matters, and how to apply it under real-world conditions.
Sessions can be customized based on:
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Agency size
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Staffing levels
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Current crime issues
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Available data and technology
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Existing partnerships
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Community concerns
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Grant-funded goals
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Officer and supervisor roles
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Local implementation challenges
Whether the need is a conference presentation, a training day, a leadership briefing, a podcast conversation, or agency-specific support, PPS can help translate proactive crime prevention concepts into practical, realistic steps.
Fees and Availability
Fees vary based on format, length, audience, level of customization, preparation needs, location, travel, and requested support.
Presentations and trainings are typically quoted as flat-fee engagements. Consulting and agency support may be structured as an hourly rate, a project-based fee, or a customized support package depending on the scope of work.
Select no-cost or reduced-cost appearances may be considered when the opportunity strongly supports the PPS mission of helping law enforcement and public safety partners advance practical, proactive crime prevention.
To discuss speaking, training, or consulting support, please contact:
Michael S. Burgess, M.S.S.
Founder, Proactive Prevention Strategies, LLC
Email: mburgess@proactivepreventionstrategiesllc.com
The Proactive Crime Prevention Book Series
Three practical resources. Three different purposes. One goal: smarter policing & safer communities.
The Proactive Crime Prevention Book Series was created for the realities of modern law enforcement—not theory for theory’s sake. Each book stands on its own, while together they provide a practical progression from understanding proactive crime prevention, to putting it into practice, to leading it effectively.
Start with the WHY & HOW
Proactive Crime Prevention: A Practical Understanding of What, Why, and How
A straightforward introduction to evidence-based policing, problem-oriented policing, and proven proactive crime-prevention strategies. It breaks down what these approaches are, why they matter, and how officers and agencies can realistically use them.
Best for: Officers, supervisors, students, and anyone looking for an accessible introduction to proactive crime prevention.
View & purchase on Amazon: https://a.co/d/0iUy4q2z
Put It Into PRACTICE
The Comprehensive Field Guide to Proactive Crime Prevention
The most comprehensive book in the series. It takes those concepts further with practical guidance on strategies, data, analysis, technology, partnerships, implementation, and 28 crime-specific playbooks for addressing real-world problems.
Best for: Officers, analysts, investigators, supervisors, trainers, and agencies looking for a hands-on reference they can actually use.
View & purchase on Amazon: https://a.co/d/0fIbKG4s
LEAD It Effectively
The Proactive Crime Prevention Leadership Guide
Designed specifically for the people responsible for making proactive policing work. It helps supervisors, command staff, and agency leaders ask better questions, support personnel, use data effectively, evaluate progress, overcome implementation challenges, and sustain effective crime-prevention efforts over time.
Best for: First-line supervisors, command staff, administrators, and law-enforcement leaders.
View & purchase on Amazon: https://a.co/d/07tZoSaB
One Series. A Complete Practical Resource.
You don't need to read the books in any particular order. Each serves a different purpose.
Understand it. Put it into practice. Lead it effectively.
Together, the series is designed to help law-enforcement professionals work smarter, identify and solve problems more effectively, make better use of available resources and partners, and prevent crime before it happens.
Explore the series on Amazon:
Meet the Owner / Founder:
Michael S. Burgess is the founder of Proactive Prevention Strategies, LLC and
a retired law enforcement professional with 24 years of experience in patrol,
criminal investigations, supervision, training, and violent crime reduction.
Throughout his career, Michael served in a variety of operational, investigative, and leadership roles. His experience includes criminal investigations, major and complex case work, narcotics investigations, SWAT, child abuse investigations, background investigations, public information, large-event planning, law enforcement training, and supervision of proactive crime reduction efforts.
Michael holds a master’s degree in Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysis (Michigan State University) and a bachelor’s degree in Public Affairs with a concentration in Homeland Security (SUNY Empire). He has also served as a certified police instructor and has trained law enforcement professionals in investigations, law, evidence-informed crime reduction, and practical policing strategies.
Michael is also an author and published writer whose work focuses on proactive crime prevention, evidence-based policing, problem-oriented policing, violent crime reduction, and practical implementation strategies for law enforcement. He is the author of three books and has written numerous articles and professional reflections aimed at helping agencies, officers, supervisors, and public safety partners better understand and apply proactive strategies in the real world.
His work focuses on bridging the gap between research and practice. Michael believes law enforcement agencies need realistic, understandable, and sustainable ways to move beyond purely reactive enforcement and toward proactive strategies that help reduce repeat calls, prevent harm, improve officer safety, and strengthen community trust.
Through PPS, Michael helps law enforcement agencies, public safety partners, and community stakeholders apply evidence-based policing, problem-oriented policing, SARA, partnerships, data-informed strategies, and practical crime prevention approaches in ways that fit real-world conditions.
His mission is simple: to help translate what works into what can actually be done.
Smarter Policing. Safer Communities.
Contact Us:
Get in touch with us for any inquiries or collaborations with
Proactive Prevention Strategies, LLC.
Michael S. Burgess, M.S.S.
Owner/Founder
Phone: (315)794-9719
Address: Oneida, NY 13421
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