Steve Cercone was an American law enforcement officer for almost 30 years. He served as a police officer, detective and SWAT team officer, and retired as a Chief of Police in California in 2010. In May 2020, Steve appeared on CBS 48 Hours "Whatever Happened to Mary Day", after taking one of his cold cases into retirement. The story involved the 1981 disappearance of 13-year-old Mary Louise Day in Seaside, California, exposing the case for follow-up investigation after it had been unsolved for many years. In 2025, Steve also appeared in another production about Mary Day on Discovery ID "The Curious Case of: The Girl Who Died Twice". Steve appeared on another CBS 48 Hours episode in 2022, "Who Shot the Tech Exec?", giving analysis commentary for 48 Hours on a criminal investigation from Santa Cruz, California contracted via his LLC consulting company. In 2017, Steve appeared on Discovery Channel Canada's "9/11: Cleared for Chaos", after he had been a passenger on United Airlines flight 929 on September 11, 2001 that was diverted to Gander, Newfoundland during the 9/11 terrorist attacks in America. Steve spent 5 days near Gander in a little village called Gambo and slept on the floor of a Salvation Army church with hundreds of fellow passengers that week. Steve served with three police departments on the west coast of the US from 1981 to 2010. He is a graduate of the FBI National Academy in Quantico. After his police career, he worked for some of the largest corporations in the world, to include Amazon, Oracle and Accenture, advising on law enforcement technology and managing corporate investigations. Steve serves on the Corporate Council of the Citizens Crime Commission of New York City and he is the founder of the public safety consulting firm, Safe Cities Global. Steve is originally from Boston and now resides in California.