Sunil Dutta

Sunil Dutta, Ph.D. is a police officer in the Los Angeles Police Department and an adjunct professor of Security Studies at Colorado Technical University.

Sunil was born and raised in a refugee family in India. An outspoken advocate of criminal justice reform, his forward-thinking views on policing and history of the Indian subcontinent have appeared in the Washington Post, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Christian Science Monitor, Pakistan Times, Newsweek, The Nation, and elsewhere.

He is a scholar of Urdu poetry and translated the renowned poet Mirza Ghalib's poetry with Robert Bly, "The Lightning Should Have Fallen on Ghalib". Dutta is also a student and promoter of Dhrupad, an ancient musical art of India, and has produced several Dhrupad recordings.

He lives in Los Angeles.