Insuperable Insurrection

Audrey McNeill is a 28 year law enforcement veteran who served eight years as a Police Officer employed by the Washington D.C. Metropolitan Police Department, and 20 years as a Special Agent of the Federal Bureau of Investigation. As a Police Officer, Ms. McNeill’s assignments or details varied to include plainclothes burglary tactical team, patrol, recruitment, and working crimes of a sexual nature undercover.
Ms. McNeill was selected to be a Crisis/Hostage Negotiator on the elite Emergency Response Team (ERT), making her the first black African-American negotiator in the history of the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department. On the ERT, she became the Lead Team Negotiator and a lead instructor on the dynamics of crisis/hostage incidents to include first responders’ approach to high-risk incidents. Having created the courses, she taught them to patrol officers and police executives alike where they were well received.
In 1996, Audrey was contacted by the executive director for the movie, Light It Up, starring Usher and Vanessa Williams. Sis. Audrey served as the technical consultant. Impressed by her knowledge of crisis/hostage incidents, the director named the main character played by Vanessa Williams, “Audrey McDonald.”
Later, Ms. McNeill was recruited by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in 1998; completed her training at the FBI Academy; and retired in 2018. As a field special agent, Ms. McNeill worked federal violations under the FBI’s Violent Crimes/Major Offenders Program, which included but was not limited to bank robberies, fu… Read More