Steve Lurie is Associate Vice Chancellor for Campus and Community Safety at the University of California, Los Angeles, where he leads campus-wide safety operations. Prior to his current appointment, Steve was a Commander at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), where his service began in 1997.
Steve started his law enforcement career as a police officer for the city of El Segundo, California. Following the attacks on September 11, 2001, Steve dedicated two years to developing Los Angeles’s system for critical infrastructure protection. In 2005, he was promoted to the rank of Detective at Southeast Area. In 2007, he was promoted to the rank of Sergeant, initially patrolling at Wilshire Division, then supervising the Southeast Division Crime Suppression Detail for four years. After being promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 2012, he managed law enforcement at Venice Beach and spent four years as an Officer in Charge at the Force Investigation Division, managing a squad of detectives responsible for investigations of officer-involved shootings and other major uses of police force. He was then promoted to Captain. Subsequently, as the Commanding Officer of the Hollywood Division, Steve led the delivery of police services for two years, including through the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2021, Chief Michel Moore promoted Steve to Commander to serve in the Office of Constitutional Policing and Policy, leading risk management and legal affairs. Most recently, Steve served as the Assistant Commanding Officer of LAPD’s Operations-West Bureau, responsible for the Hollywood, Wilshire, West Los Angeles, Olympic, and Pacific police divisions.
Steve holds a BA in anthropology from UCLA and a JD from Loyola Law School, Los Angeles. In 2002, Steve was admitted to the California Bar and later attended the Federal Bureau of Investigation National Academy in Quantico, Virginia. Steve has taught police law at the graduate level since 2007.
Learn more about Professor Lurie in his Faculty Spotlight.
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