Law Enforcement

• Patrol Deputy, District 1 
• Field Training Officer (FTO)
• Detective, District 4 
• Homicide, Major Crimes Unit (MCU)
• Patrol Sergeant, District 3 
• FTO Sergeant
• Detective Sergeant, District 3
• Lieutenant, Special Investigations (Gangs, Intelligence, FBI JTTF, Blue Lightening TF, Career Criminal Unit, Crime Analysis, Sexual Offender/Predator Unit, Intelligence Fusion Center, et al.)
• Patrol, District 4 

During his time as a deputy sheriff,  Dr. Bushong received close to 2000 hours of specialized training in law enforcement (LE) and forensic topics. For LE, he received advanced training in areas of  human diversity, bias-based profiling, corrections, corrections supervision, executive management of intelligence, information security, private investigations, field training, major case management, management of a detective unit, middle management, human trafficking, street survival, national incident command, risk management in undercover operations, surveillance operations, money laundering, use and control of informants, terrorism counteraction, problem solving for community police officers, lethal and non-lethal use of force, electronic search, radar and laser speed measurement, functions in civil disturbances, tactical communications, and urban tactics. 

Dr. Bushong is a forensic practitioner, chiefly in the area of medicolegal death investigation (MDI). He's a recognized Daubert witness in the 2nd Judicial Circuit. He has received specialized training in medicolegal death investigation, investigative interview, advanced interview and interrogation, injury and death investigations, advanced injury and death investigations, death and homicide investigations, blood spatter/bloodstain interpretation, investigation of police shootings, forensic entomology, underwater crime scene investigation, underwater search and recovery, computer evidence recovery, computer crime investigation, domestic violence offenses, juvenile sexual offenses, computer evidence recovery, property crime investigations, heavy equipment identification, masking of sexual offenses, offender considerations for assessing violence, offender interactions process model, adult children who commit parental homicide, and techniques for assessing deviant sexual interests.

Dr. Bushong is a member of FEMORS, Florida's Emergency Mortuary Operational Response System (ESF-8) housed at the UF School of Forensic Medicine. This organization responds to mass casualty events such as was witnessed following Hurricane Ian. 

Dr. Bushong was a police academy instructor for the State of Wisconsin.