Stephen is a co-founder of The Arbalest Quarrel and serves as its President and CMO. He is a decorated veteran Police Officer of the New York City Police Department.

Previously, he founded and served as President and CEO of two private security and criminological research firms. He was also a business partner in a New York City licensed indoor gun range. 

While employed with the NYPD, Stephen earned three University degrees from John Jay College of Criminal Justice: a Bachelor of Science in Police Science, a Master of Arts in Criminal Justice Administration and a Master of Public Administration. He then served as an Adjunct Professor/Lecturer of Police Science at the College and went on to become a public high school Social Studies Teacher, Dean of Students, and Athletic Coach for the New York City Department of Education.

Stephen is an active member of the International Association of Law Enforcement Firearms Instructors. He is also a National Rifle Association Training Counselor and Firearms Instructor in pistol, rifle and shotgun. He has testified in firearms, crime and self-defense before governmental committees and at hearings on many occasions. He has written numerous articles on these subjects and appeared on television, radio, and podcasts. Major national and international newspapers, magazines, and professional journals have profiled Stephen as an expert in personal and corporate security.

Stephen is aware that there is no other nation, group of nations, or other political construct that has a true bill of rights or one as robust as our own. And some don’t even have a bill of rights.

He is a fervent supporter of our Nation’s Bill of Rights, all ten of them, realizing that the first two are especially important, and serve together as the cornerstone of our free Constitutional Republic.

Stephen will write under his own name but may, at times, write under the nom de plume, “Publius.”