Washington, DC Metropolitan Police Memorial & Museum Board of Directors

Member of the Board of Directors –  Representing the Washington DC Police Foundation as its Executive Director

Patrick A. Burke, a 27 year, highly decorated veteran of the department, including nine years as an Assistant Chief of Police, retired as head of the Strategic Services Bureau, where he oversaw training, professional development, and strategic planning. He began his career as a patrol officer and rose through the ranks, serving in police district’s and in multiple specialized units.

As a senior executive of the department, he served in a variety of capacities including head of the Homeland Security Bureau where he oversaw security coordination for major events, demonstrations and protests. During his career he received MPD’s Achievement Award, Lifesaving Medals and the Police Medal for Meritorious Service. He is the recipient of the prestigious Morris and Gwendolyn Cafritz Foundation Award for Distinguished D.C. Government Employees for his excellence in public leadership. He was recognized by the Center for Homeland Defense and Security when presented with its Straub Award for Academic Excellence and Leadership Award and, by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration Award for Public Service.

Upon retirement, he was nominated by President Barak Obama and confirmed by the Senate to become the 42nd United States Marshal for the District of Columbia, having oversight over security details for 145 Federal Judges, the protection of the U.S. District Courts, the fugitive unit and warrant squad operations. President Obama credited him with helping coordinate security for major events as MPDs principal coordinator and incident commander for the Papal Visit, G-20 Summit, Nuclear Security Summit and, for the 2009 Presidential Inauguration.

He received his undergraduate degree in criminal justice from the State University of New York College at Buffalo, holds a Certificate in Public Management from the George Washington University, as well as two master’s degrees: one from Johns Hopkins University in management; the other, from the Naval Post Graduate School’s Center for Homeland Defense and Security in executive Homeland Security Studies. He completed executive training at the Senior Management Institute for Police (SMIP) in Boston, MA and counter-terrorism training in Israel. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy.

Since 2013, he has served as an adjunct professor in the College of Professional Studies at The George Washington University, teaching both graduate and undergraduate courses in Emergency Management, Crisis Communications, and Media/Public Relations. He also is serving as an adjunct Professor at Georgetown University, teaching in the master’s program in Applied Intelligence. On February 6th, 2017, he accepted the position of the Executive Director of the Washington DC Police Foundation.

Since joining the Police Foundation, he has implemented numerous educational programs for the underprivileged, to include enhanced police cadet programs in the DC Public Schools. He and his wife Nora and children reside in Washington, DC.

Treasurer, Board of Directors

Represents the Police Federal Credit Union. Danny Gregg is a retired law enforcement executive with more than 25 years of public service. He retired as an inspector/director of the Finance and Resource Management & Planning and Research Development Bureau at the Metropolitan Police Department in 1995.

Not a novice at governing businesses at the board level, Danny has served on numerous boards and committees overseeing for-profit, not-for-profit, and charitable organizations, and a host of collegial associations. Today, Danny is the elected trustee representing retired police officers of the Metropolitan Police Department at the DC Retirement Board – AUM $11.3B; Danny serves as the chairman of the Board of Directors (BOD) for Police Federal Credit Union –AUM $180M; Danny is the treasurer of the BOD for the Dollard-Suter Family Fund; Danny is a director of the BOD for the Credit Union Mortgage Association; and, Danny is a committee member of the Political Action and Legislative Committee for the Maryland and DC Credit Union Association.

Danny believes that service to community is like a ship at sea – everybody should be prepared to take the helm at some point.

Member, Board of Directors – Represents the Association of Retired Police Officers (AORP) of DC.

Bob was born in Brooklyn NY, was married for more than 60 years and he has three sons, six grandchildren and four great grandchildren. He served with distinction in the United States Navy from 1952 to 1956. Following his honorable discharge he joined the Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department in 1956 and was immediately assigned as an undercover police officer.

Throughout his 22-year career that followed, Bob was assigned to various precincts, districts and criminal investigation divisions serving as a Detective, Detective Sergeant and retiring in 1977 as a Lieutenant of Detectives. Among the highlights of his career was the high profile media event of what became known as Operation Sting. Bob was the founder and Director of Operation Sting, several undercover operations that resulted in the arrest of 565 career criminals, the recovery of $3.5 million dollars of stolen property that resulted in a 99.9% conviction rate and closed over 1,800 criminal cases in the metropolitan area of Washington, DC. Following the highly publicized successes of these sting operations, Bob took his act on the road and assisted multiple police agencies in establishing their own undercover Sting operations throughout the United States as well as conducting lectures to many major police departments both inside and outside of the United States.

Bob retired in 1977 and began his career in the private sector establishing Sting Security Inc. of Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. This company provided contract Security Officers, Detectives, undercover operatives, Polygraphs, Voice Stress Analyzers, as well as providing technical security equipment such as alarms, CCTV and a state-of-the-art Central Monitoring Station. His company expanded into Patrol Command which sold technical security systems to the private sector.

In 1998, after over 20 successful years, the companies were sold and he
began a new Security Guard Management company in Dunkirk Maryland. This company developed and provides security guard, supervisor and management training videos and manuals for all aspects of the security guard business.

Member, Board of Directors – Represents the DC Chapter of the Fraternal Order of Police (FOP).

Bonnie was selected to represent the DC Fraternal Order of Police (FOP) by the President of the DC Chapter because of her outstanding support and continued work on the DC Police Memorial, among many other activities to the DC Chapter of the FOP. She represents the members of the Metropolitan Police Department.

She is a Trustee for the National FOP Auxiliary and was elected President of the DC Chapter of the FOP in 2013. She previously was Chairperson of the Safety Education Committee for the National FOP Auxiliary and is currently serving as the Chairperson for the Legislative Committee for the National FOP Auxiliary. She also served on the National FOP Auxiliary Budget Committee and the National FOP Auxiliary Michele Letz Merit Award Committee. She herself received this distinguished award in 2017 for her service and dedication and has had her name placed on the Michele Letz National Merit Award Plaque in the National FOP Office in Nashville, TN.

Her husband, Louis Cannon, was a 40-year veteran of law enforcement, retiring as a Sergeant from the DC Metropolitan Police Department and concluded his career as Chief of Police with the DC Protective Services Police Department.

She was born in Oxon Hill, Maryland and after high school went on to work for Congressman Norman Shumway for a few years and then chose to be an intellectual property specialist until she retired in 2004. She has two boys from her first marriage and two beautiful stepdaughters from her second marriage and 5 grandsons.

Member, Board of Directors – Represents Crime Solvers of Washington, DC Inc. 

Joe Gentile was raised in College Park, Maryland. Armed with an Associate
Arts degree in Police Science from Montgomery Junior College in Maryland along with some journalism courses and a year’s experience working as a reporter on the school paper, Joe joined the Metropolitan Police Department in 1967.

He began his career in the first precinct walking a foot beat. He later worked the wagon, patrolled in a cruiser and became a crime scene search officer. He also served as an “Officer Friendly” and talked to kids in the community concerning safety issues. The department had just created the Office of
Community Relations and because of his education background, Joe was plucked from the ranks and assigned to the Community Relations Office, which was later renamed the Public Information Office.

Joe went on to become a popular and well respected professional Public Information Officer for the department. He emerged as a national television presence in 1977 during an incident in which a Hanafi Muslim group stormed three DC buildings, killing a local radio reporter and shooting a
security guard and Marion Barry, who was a DC Council member.

Joe never missed a beat throughout his career. As a Public Information Officer, his involvement with the media covered the gamut from the attempted assassination of former President Ronald Reagan to the high profile and unsolved case of Chandra Levy, the Capitol Hill intern who had an affair with former Congressman Gary Condit (D-Calif.), later  disappeared, and whose partial remains were subsequently discovered in Rock Creek Park in the District of Columbia.

Before Chief Charles H. Ramsey retired from the department, he honored Sgt. Gentile by officially designating the Sgt. Joseph C. Gentile Public Information Office within the department. This official act demonstrated the high degree of respect Joe earned throughout his tenure in the
department.

Joe made a lasting impression in the public service sector. Though he is modest and states, “I’m an average Joe named Joe just doing my job,” he is far more than that. An exemplary public information and police officer, Gentile has dedicated his life by impacting the lives of others in positive and
productive ways. He has forged valuable relationships with the media, the police department, and the community at large. Not only is he, as Allison Klein states, “legendary in the Washington Post newsroom,” he is legendary in the nation’s Capital as a distinctive role model and unforgettable figure.
Joe retired from the department in 2007. However he continues to serve the department as a member of the DC Crime Solvers committee and as a member of the Board of Directors for the DC Police Memorial and Museum. 

Member, DC Metropolitan Area Chapter of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE).

Clay Goldston is a retired law enforcement executive with 35 years of public service.  Starting as an Officer he worked his way up the ranks and retired at the rank of Deputy Chief, Commander of the Fourth District, Metropolitan Police Department, Washington, DC.

Upon retirement from the Metropolitan Police, Clay, for 11 years, was Director of Public Safety at The Catholic University of America, retiring in 2005.  At present, Clay serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors for the Police Federal Credit Union, Washington, DC.  Clay and his wife, Jannie, live in Washington, DC.  They have two sons, Clay D., Charles C., a daughter-in-law and three granddaughters, all of Silver Spring, MD.

Clay completed his undergraduate studies in Administration of Justice at American
University in Washington, DC.

Clay is a member of the National Organization of Black Law Enforcement Executives (NOBLE), Kiwanis Club of Shepherd Park and is the President of the Kiwanis Club of Southwest Waterfront, Washington, DC.  He is a member of Ascension Lutheran Church in Landover Hills, MD, where he serves on the Church Council and Chairman of the Board of Evangelism.