In Memory of
Dr. Tory J. Caeti
Dr. Tory J. Caeti
Caeti was working in Kenya on a project with the U.S. Department of State at the time of his death. The project involved training Kenyan government officials about cyber terrorism. Caeti was one of the lead instructors in the week-long training session.
Caeti joined the UNT faculty in 1996, after holding the same position in the Criminal Justice Program at Bowling Green State University. He also had worked as an assistant instructor in the College of Criminal Justice at Sam Houston State University.
Caeti earned his bachelors degree in political science from Colorado State University in 1989, his masters degree in criminal justice in 1993 and his doctoral degree in 1998, both from Sam Houston State University.
He was a consultant to numerous law enforcement agencies on issues of patrol allocation and management and previously studied patrolling strategies for the Houston Police Department and the Dallas Police Department's Anti-Gang Initiative. He was the principal investigator of Houstons Targeted Beat Patrol Program and a former research fellow for the Serious Habitual Offender Comprehensive Action Program at Sam Houston State University.
His areas of expertise and research included law enforcement, use of force by police, tasers, cyber-terrorism (computer), crime rates, police administration, police patrol, gangs, criminal justice administration, criminal justice policy making, legal issues in criminal justice, juvenile crime, juvenile justice and serial murders.
He published research in Criminal Justice Policy Review, Crime and Delinquency and American Journal of Criminal Law.
When a group of seven inmates escaped from a South Texas state prison in 2000 and killed an Irving police officer, local and national media turned to Caeti for his expertise on the subject of modern crime and criminal behavior. He received national coverage in on Nightline and in USA Today.
Caeti is survived by his wife, Melinda; two children, Anthony and Lauren; parents, Salvatore and Nancy Caeti; sister, Gina Pochocki; mother-in-law, Roxie Mapp; and sister-in-law, Merry Harris.