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Michael T. Morrison is the Director and Founder of MTM Enterprises, an organization dedicated to building communication between local law enforcement and the communities they serve.
Michael T. Morrison is the Director and Founder of MTM Enterprises, an organization dedicated to building communication between local law enforcement and the communities they serve.
Morrison began his career in law enforcement in 1987 as police officer, and worked for the N.J. Transit Police in Penn Station Newark. In 1990 he was hired as the second African American police officer in the history of the Maplewood, New Jersey township.
Morrison immediately began developing programs to improve fractured relationships in the community. Morrison was promoted to Detective and assigned to Columbia High school as its first school resource officer.
In this role he realized the disenfranchised and marginalized students in the high school were in need of intervention to ensure academic success and graduation, and he developed the South Orange Maplewood Mentor Program, a 501c (3) organization dedicated to providing mentors for at-risk youth. Over 200 students participated with a graduation success rate of 98%.
In 2005 Morrison became the first African American promoted Sergeant in the Maplewood, NJ township Police Department. In response to a major incident between local police officers and a group of at-risk youth in the community, Morrison created the inaugural Community Policing Program to repair and improve the relationship between the police and the community, called Officer Mike’s Open Gym.
Officer Mike’s Open gym was nominated for the 2025 Anthony L. Sutin Award for Innovative Law Enforcement and Community Partnerships. This award is given out by the Department of Justice Morrison is proficient in evaluating and identifying causes of breaches in community trust and assisting in the design of programs with quantitative and qualitative results.
Morrison is the recipient of the “Beloved Community” Award from South Orange, NJ, the NAACP of the Oranges and Maplewood, NJ., named him “warrior for youth” in 2006.
A graduate of the New Brunswick Theological Seminary with a Master of Arts in Ministry and Community Leadership. Morrison is the author of “Black Cop” the story of one officer’s struggle to stay committed to his community while fighting systemic racism in the police department. His book inspired the hot new podcast from Blanchard House of London “Black and Blue Behind the Badge “ which was the bronze winner for Most Factual Category in the 2024 British Podcast Awards.
Morrison’s 2-Day Community Policing / Community Engagement Course has been well received by departments call over the country. “Community Policing the invisible front line”