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Maureen Q. McGough
Maureen Q. McGough

Maureen Q. McGough is Senior Advisor for Collaborative Reform at the NYU School of Law’s Policing Project, Strategic Advisor and faculty member at the University of South Carolina School of Law, and co-founder of the 30x30 Initiative to Advance Women in Policing. She spent most of her career as an attorney and senior advisor at the US Departments of Justice and State, where she advanced research and policy related to addressing human trafficking, advancing evidence-based policing, reducing wrongful convictions, and countering poaching in East Africa. She also served as counsel on terrorism prevention to the Deputy Attorney General, Special Assistant U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia, and coordinator for federal AIDS relief efforts through the U.S. Embassy in Kigali, Rwanda. Her work advancing equity in policing has appeared in major media outlets including the Washington Post, CNN, and NPR. Maureen earned her JD from the George Washington University School of Law.

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This opinion piece by policing experts Seth W. Stoughton, Ian T. Adams, Geoffrey P. Alpert, Gil Kerlikowske, Maureen Q. McGough, and Jeffrey J. Noble addresses federal immigration enforcement tactics under the Trump administration. The authors argue that the conduct of agencies like ICE and CBP has departed from established norms in policing in a way that has undermined public safety, particularly through fatal shootings. They contend that these actions—marked by poor planning, aggressive field tactics, and a disregard for accountability—are not just unprofessional but dangerously authoritarian, threatening public safety and the legitimacy of policing itself.