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Evaluation versus Experimentation: Where are We At?

I get asked a lot about evaluation. Usually this occurs in the context of discussing some program that has been in operation for several...

Research Killers: Fallacies about What Cannot be Measured

Recently, I posted a blog about the state of evidence in support of situation tables and hubs. In response, one correspondent argued that...

How Do I Make My Program More Evidence Based? You Don’t

One of the more interesting, and challenging, questions I’ve received lately has to do with the question of ‘how do you retrofit a...

Research Killers: Institutionalization

I was recently tagged in a Twitter discussion asking all 14 participants and their followers to define EBP (evidence based policing)....

Things that Sound Good, Part II: Road to Mental Readiness Training for Police

A couple of years ago I attended my first IACP (the big annual Police Chiefs Conference). With more enthusiasm than conviction, I scanned...

Implicit Bias Training and Things That Sound Good

Occasionally something will come across my Twitter feed that sparks some interest. One of those posts was from Thomas Abt, a...

Context Matters: The S.W.A.T. Study

A while back I was sent a D.M. from a policing friend on Twitter. He wanted to know my opinion on a recently released study purporting to...

Tipping Sacred Cows: The Evidence Base for Situation Tables and Hubs

Over the past few years the Ontario and Saskatchewan governments have been heavily promoting the concept of ‘community safety and...

Research Killers: Confirmation Bias

A recent email inquiry got me thinking about the question of ethics and the problem of confirmation bias. What my correspondent wanted to...

Return of the D.A.R.E. Zombie

Recently I was asked for my opinion on a program known as ‘Keepin It Real’ (KiR. For those of you who haven’t heard of it, it could also...