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...
An Unpopular Opinion about Corona and CrimeOver 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 ReviewAt 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 HubsYes, 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...