Who we are

Martin J. Alperen, Homeland Security Conultant.

After serving as a police officer, I attended law school and have been a practicing attorney since 1985. I am admitted to practice law in California, Colorado, Massachusetts, New York, and the U.S. Virgin Islands and have worked in both the private and government sectors. I am past president of St. John Rescue, the first responder and  search-and-rescue agency on St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands.

I hold a M.A. degree in “Security Studies (Homeland Security and Defense)” from the U.S. Government-sponsored, Naval Postgraduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security in Monterey, CA, a J.D. from Suffolk University Law School in Boston, MA, and a B.A. in Government from Connecticut College, New London, CT. I am one of only a handful of attorneys with the Homeland Security degree.

My book, “Foundations of Homeland Security, Law and Policy,” was published by Wiley & Sons in April, 2011.

Other publications include:

“City Needs to Rethink Emergency Services Hierarchy” Berkeley [California] Daily Planet, July 02, 2009;

“Police Community Relations are Fundamental to Homeland Security” Feature Article, Homeland Defense Journal, Special Edition – Dear Mr. President, V6, #6, Dec. 2008;

“The Virgin Islands, America’s Underbelly” the Economist Magazine, Sept. 2-8, 2006;

“SkyRepeater,” QST Magazine, February 2006, “Up Front in QST,” p. 21;

“Poor Use of Homeland Security Money?” St. John Tradewinds, Nov. 14-20, 2005.

“Virgin Islands Criminal, Vehicle and Traffic Laws Annotated, 2005 Edition,” Lexis Law Publishing, 1999, 2000, 2005.