Reading the Room: How to Get it Wrong in a Crisis
Several years ago, myself and an academic colleague asked for a meeting with our then local police Chief to discuss the possibility of...
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An Unpopular Opinion about Corona and Crime
Over the past few weeks, the Internet has been rife with speculation, conjecture, delusions, pseudo-science, fake remedies and so on. I...
2019: The Research Year in Review
At the end of every calendar year, I collect all of the Canadian peer-reviewed, published, policing research I can find from searches* of...
Year Over Year: How Not to Talk About Crime Data
The Government of Alberta* just released a study it commissioned on safe consumption sites for intravenous drug users. Regardless of...
Drawing Causal Inferences – Back to the Hubs
Yes, I’m about to bang on about this again. Why? Because someone recently reached out to ask me what I thought about the evidence base...
Sandra Bland and Attribution Error
Lately I’ve been reading a bit about the Sandra Bland case in the U.S. And yes, I know, it happened about 5 years ago, but I learned a...
The Numbers Don't Lie (Google Trends)
Advocates for any type of movement - whether it be environmentalism or tax reform - are just as prone to self-deluding fallacies as the...
Um ... Hello, What Do I Always Say?
I got a question in my inbox last night that I thought was of sufficient import that it needed a blog. In a nutshell, the question was:...
If You Don’t Like What I’m Going to Say, Don’t Ask Me
There are few more teeth-grinding, soul sucking, head bangingly infuriating activities on the planet than participating or trying to...
About Mistakes ...
Usually, when the topic of research ethics is taught in university classes, we focus on extreme cases like Zimbardo's prison experiment*...
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