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Bob Shilling

Co-founder Brave Movement and Member of the Brave Movement’s SAGE (Survivor Advocates Globally Empowered – advisory board)
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Det. Ret. Bob Shilling has served with the Seattle Police Department for 36 years. He served on patrol for ten years, walking foot beats in underprivileged neighborhoods of the city for five of those years.

He worked with the Detective Bureau for 26 years, spending the majority of those years in the Sexual Assault and Child Abuse Unit.

He served as the Sex and Kidnapping Offender Detail's Lead Detective for eighteen years. Det. Shilling experienced sexual abuse as a child and overcame it.

Det. Shilling created a curriculum for holding public education meetings for community notice in 1993. Numerous law enforcement agencies nationwide used this curriculum to help them conduct community notification public education seminars without resorting to violence or vigilantism.

"The Brave Movement is the best chance I’ve seen in a long time to tackle this issue by working together - it’s a real opportunity to talk about sexual abuse and the epidemic that it is from the view of everyday people. As survivors, we can have a significant impact. Hope is the key; if you quit hoping, you quit fighting, and if you quit fighting, you lose. We're not about to lose."

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