Charles Higbee retired from the Los Angeles Police Department after thirty years of service.  During the last eighteen years of his career, his primary function was that of investigating and directing the investigation of use of force incidents, in-custody deaths and critical injuries; estimated to be in excess of sixteen hundred investigations.  Lieutenant Higbee has lectured nationally on the investigation of use of force incidents and currently consults with attorneys relative to the defense of municipalities and their personnel.  Presently, he is in his fourteenth year as an instructor at the Fullerton College Police Academy.  As an instructor, he lectures on several different aspects of investigations and use of force.