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Article 22 Pace Law
Course
Phil Pulaski •

2.
Phil Pulaski has 40 years of police
experience. Phil Pulaski retired from the
New York City Police Department
(NYPD) in 2014 where he served for
more than 4 years as Chief of
Detectives, and previously was
commanding officer of several large
commands including the Intelligence
Division, Counterterrorism Bureau,
FBI/NYPD Joint Terrorist Task Force,
Detective Division Manhattan,
Detective Division Bronx, Special
Investigations Division and Forensic
Investigations Division.

3.
● Extraordinarily, Phil Pulaski’s career with the NYPD began after
he earned a Juris Doctor degree from St. John’s University
School of Law at night and passed the New York State Bar
exam. Most police officers go to law school at night while they
are working for the police department, however Phil Pulaski was
already an attorney when he was sworn in as a member of the
NYPD. While working in the NYPD, Phil Pulaski served as a
Managing Attorney in the Legal Bureau for several years and
was admitted to practice law in the US Supreme Court, US
Court of Appeals 2nd
Circuit, and US District Courts for the
Eastern and Southern Districts of NY. As an attorney in the
NYPD for more than 30 years, Phil Pulaski wrote numerous
NYPD legal opinions and provided a significant amount of legal
training.

4.
● Following his retirement from the NYPD, Phil Pulaski bolstered
his academic credentials by receiving a Master of Laws (LLM)
advanced law degree from Touro College Jacob D. Fuchsberg
Law School. While studying for his LLM degree, Phil Pulaski
maintained a 4.0 GPA and graduated summa cum laude.

5.
During the Spring 2021 semester, Phil Pulaski became an adjunct
professor of law at Pace University Law School, and taught an
advanced criminal law seminar entitled “The Law of Policing”. The
course examined a complex body of constitutional provisions,
statutes, case law and regulations in addition to collective
bargaining agreements, police department standard operating
procedures and governmental policies that define police agency
legal authority, functions, oversight and funding. The course
focused on US Supreme Court cases involving constitutional
criminal procedure and also examined many landmark New York
State Court of Appeals cases. The course was extremely
successful, and Phil Pulaski received outstanding evaluations from
his students.