About
Where law enforcement meets technology
I spend my days at the intersection of law enforcement and technology — 26 years in public safety, the last several focused on building and running the systems that keep a police department secure, accountable, and operationally efficient. As Police Systems Analyst for the Hoboken Police Department, I lead technology deployment, vendor management, and system adoption initiatives while navigating the compliance and procurement demands that come with government work.
That includes administering the Axon Body-Worn Camera and Evidence ecosystem — procurement, implementation, and day-to-day evidence management — and managing the Verkada and Genetec video surveillance and access control platforms that protect Police Headquarters, city parks, roads, and other municipal facilities across Hoboken.
Outside the department, I own and run Bean Vault Coffee, a Hoboken coffee shop I founded in 2014, and I build software — including AI-powered tools using Claude — for public safety and small business use cases.
Home is Hoboken — husband, father, coffee obsessive.
What I do
What I can run for you
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Public safety technology
The systems a 150-officer department runs on — records, dispatch, and the body-worn camera program — kept online, secure, and audit-ready around the clock. Plus the layer nobody notices until it fails: Cradlepoint routers and Dell rugged laptops in the patrol cars, FirstNet and Verizon carrier service, and the department’s Harris radio fleet.
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Physical security & surveillance
Nearly 300 cameras and more than 100 access-controlled doors across Police Headquarters, parks, roads, and municipal facilities citywide — on the Verkada and Genetec platforms.
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Government procurement & vendors
Evaluating vendors, negotiating contracts, and deploying systems that meet strict operational, compliance, and budgetary requirements — with SLED sales experience from the other side of the table.
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AI & software
Building AI-powered tools — including with Claude — for public safety and small business use cases, and advocating for practical, responsible AI adoption on the ground. See the projects below for the proof.
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Leadership & training
26 years in public safety, including supervision as a Sergeant of Police. Department-wide training that gets technology actually adopted, not just installed.
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Entrepreneurship
Founder and CEO of Bean Vault Coffee — a Hoboken coffee business scaled to more than 25,000 transactions a year, run alongside a full public-safety career.
Projects
Things I've built & run
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PoliceSpace
policespace.comThe operating system for modern policing — records, personnel, CAD/dispatch, and professional standards. CJIS-aligned, built on Microsoft Azure Government, and now in live testing with a working police department — designed by someone who has filed the reports himself.
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Human Link ID
hlid.ioA P.O. Box for your whole life — one durable point of contact that follows you across moves, carriers, and inboxes. Need to talk to a stranger without handing over your personal number? Members can open a live two-way text link on the fly, then revoke it the moment the conversation’s over.
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Ripple Goods
ripplegoods.orgA purpose brand with a simple deal: quality goods, and 10% of every sale funds clean water projects through charity: water.
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Bean Vault Coffee
beanvaultcoffee.comThe coffee shop — founded 2014, over 25,000 transactions a year, and the reason I understand small-business operations from the inside.
Career
The path so far
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Jun 2025 — Present
Police Systems Analyst
Hoboken Police DepartmentLeading technology deployment, vendor management, and cybersecurity across the department — records, body-worn cameras, network infrastructure, and citywide physical security systems.
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Jun 2024 — Jun 2025
Sales Account Executive
CTCI TechnologySold technology into the SLED market — municipal and county governments — building proposals that cleared procurement, budget, and security requirements.
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Aug 2019 — Jun 2024
Sergeant of Police & IT Network Administrator
Hoboken Police DepartmentOversaw the Axon Body-Worn Camera and Evidence rollout, directed new server and communications infrastructure, and administered CAD/RMS department-wide.
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Feb 2014 — Present
CEO & Founder
Bean Vault Coffee LLCFounded and scaled a coffee business run alongside a full public-safety career.
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Mar 1999 — Aug 2019
Police Officer & Detective
Hoboken Police DepartmentPatrol, vice/narcotics, county-wide detective, community policing, and school resource officer assignments — two decades of operational police work behind everything the systems side touches.
B.S. Human Services, Thomas Edison University (2008) · Google Cybersecurity Certificate (2024)
Off the clock
When I'm not working
I snowboard, ride an electric skateboard, get around on an electric bike, and still rollerblade after all these years. Before law enforcement, I was a working DJ, spinning from ninth grade until the day I became a cop — which is probably why I still think a good rollout, like a good set, is all about reading the room.
Speaking
Topics I speak on
I talk about three things I actually do: how public-safety technology procurement really works, from both sides of the table; running a small business where AI does the manager work; and practical technology adoption in policing — a conversation I have inside my own department every week about what's actually useful, what needs to get better, and how we build the technology that moves the department forward.
Invite me to speakFor organizers — paste-ready bio
Justin DePascale is a Police Systems Analyst at the Hoboken Police Department and a retired Police Sergeant with 26 years in public safety. He administers the department's Axon, Verkada, and Genetec platforms, owns Bean Vault Coffee in Hoboken, and builds AI tools for public safety and small business.
