Jeffrey H. Lurie was born and raised in southeastern Massachusetts. While on a tour of the North Attleboro, Massachusetts police station with his Cub Scout pack, Jeffrey met Sergeant Danny Coyle, who would later become his mentor. Sergeant Coyle facilitated Jeffrey's attendance at a summer D.A.R.E. Camp program and wrote him a letter of recommendation for his first position in law enforcement as an E911 police dispatcher.
Jeffrey spent nearly four years writing "Paving Your Path to Policing, "drawing on his experiences from the police academy, field training, patrol, and as a detective assi...