How Do I Make My Program More Evidence Based? You Don’tOne 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: InstitutionalizationI 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 PoliceA 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 GoodOccasionally 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. StudyA 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 HubsOver the past few years the Ontario and Saskatchewan governments have been heavily promoting the concept of ‘community safety and...