Every year for the past few years, I do an annual stock-taking of where we're at in terms of producing good quality policing research. And, like clockwork, I write a dirge slash exhortation about how much we suck and how we need to do better next year. This pronouncement of suckage is always provisional, meaning that not all of the 2018 papers are listed in the academic databases by December 2018, and therefore I generally have to wait a few more months before this pronouncem