Crisis on Livingston Street (Orlando Police Department, Crisis Negotiations Team, Case Study) On November 25th, 2009, the day before Thanksgiving, the Orlando Police Department Communication Center received a 911 call from a frantic female who reported she escaped from being held captive by her estranged husband. Her four children, ages ranging from 2-9 years of age, were still at the residence along with the suspect's blind brother. The suspect was armed with two guns and had a military-style bulletproof vest. The Orlando Police Department's Patrol Units, SWAT Team and Crisis Negotiations Team were immediately activated. On June 10. 2018, a similar situation took place. The Orlando Police Department Communication Center received a 911 call from a frantic female who reported she was battered by her boyfriend/father of two of her children. She ran from her apartment and called 911 from a nearby convenience store. She left her four children at home, ages ranging from 1-12 years of age. Her boyfriend owns a gun. Patrol responded, and the SWAT Team and Crisis Negotiators responded but the situation but had a different outcome.

Detective Rick Salcedo retired from the Orlando Police Department after 26 years of service. He was a Sex Crimes Detective assigned to the Special Victim Unit for over 17 years. He was an on-call Crisis/Hostage Negotiator for 18 years. As a negotiator, he responded to several calls involving suicidal individuals and barricaded gunmen. He has successfully negotiated several situations without the loss of life. Detective Salcedo instructs the Advanced Sex Crimes and Child Sex Crimes Investigations Courses at the Valencia State College School of Public Safety and the Eastern State College Public Safety Institute. He is currently employed as a Sex Crimes Detective at the University of Central Florida Police Department. He was the lead negotiator at the Livingston Street incident and one of the negotiators who responded to the 2016 Pulse Massacre. He retired from the Orlando Police Department in November 2016 and joined the UCF Police Department. He was speaker at the 2017 Florida Annual Instructor Training Conference, the Florida Hostage Negotiators Conference, the 2018 Michigan Hostage Negotiators Conference, the 2019 Indiana, Ohio, and Rocky Mountain Hostage-Crisis Negotiators Conferences, the 2021 Texas and California Association of Hostage Negotiators Conference, the 2022 Western State Hostage Negotiator Conference and the Calgary Hostage Negotiators Seminar.