However, the team would again fail to win a championship, and entered into another period of mediocrity until the early part of the 2000s. Under Johnson, and after trading for perennial NBA All-Star Charles Barkley, and combined with the output of Tom Chambers and Dan Majerle, the Suns reached the playoffs for a franchise-record thirteen consecutive appearances and remained a regular title contender throughout the 1990s, and reached the 1993 NBA Finals. However, after failing to capture a championship, the Suns would rebuild around Walter Davis for a majority of the 1980s, until the acquisition of Kevin Johnson in 1988. The franchise began play in 1968 as an expansion team, and their early years were mired in mediocrity, but their fortunes changed in the 1970s after partnering Dick Van Arsdale and Alvan Adams with Paul Westphal the team reached the 1976 NBA Finals, in what is considered to be one of the biggest upsets in NBA history. The Suns are one of four major league sports teams based in the Phoenix area, but are the only one to bill themselves as representing the city (the other teams - the Cardinals, Coyotes, and Diamondbacks - all bill themselves as representing the state of Arizona). The Suns are the only team in their division not to be based in California, and play their home games at the Footprint Center. They compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA), as a member of the league's Western Conference Pacific Division. Laura is co-creator and co-host of the award-winning podcast Real Crime Profile and has a golden doodle called Beatrice aka the #SavageLittleBeast.The Phoenix Suns are an American professional basketball team based in Phoenix, Arizona. Laura was consulting producer and on-screen expert for the two-hour documentary special Dirty John, The Dirty Truth and host of the Netflix series, Killer in the Family.

Laura is executive producer of Audible's The First Wife: John Meehan's Reign of Terror, the CBS show The Case of: JonBenét Ramsey and The Case of: Caylee Anthony on Oxygen. Laura developed the Domestic Abuse, Stalking and Harassment and Honour based violence ( DASH 2009-2022) Risk Identification, Assessment and Management Model on behalf of NPCC and in partnership with Safer Lives. Laura was head of the Violent Crime and Intelligence Analysis Unit in the Metropolitan Police Service and continues to advise NPCC, the College of Policing, the Home Office and police services across the UK on public protection. Laura has been leading the way in the UK campaigning for serial domestic violence perpetrators and stalkers to be included on the same register as sex offenders, having set up the world’s first National Stalking Advocacy Service, Paladin.

Laura has a BSc in Psychology and Sociology and an MSc in Forensic and Legal Psychology, and with a background in intelligence-led policing, has been the architect of law reform to better protect victims on eight occasions, spearheading law reform on stalking and coercive control in England and Wales and more recently America and Australia and winning numerous awards for her pioneering and life saving work. Trained by world leaders at the Behavioural Analysis Unit, National Centre for the Analysis of Violent Crime at the FBI and New Scotland Yard, Laura has applied her psychology degrees to analyse violent crime from a behavioural and preventative perspective. Former New Scotland Yard criminal behavioural analyst Laura Richards, BSc, MSc, MBPsS is a renowned international expert on domestic violence, stalking, sexual violence, homicide and risk assessment.Īfter a decade of analysing violent crime at New Scotland Yard Laura became the violence adviser to the National Police Chiefs Council (NPCC).

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