The Duh Factor (or why we probably need to rethink the approach to ACE research)Every so often someone in policing will relate a story about a piece of research they read or heard about that describes a relationship...
Why Your Well-intentioned Intuitions are No Substitute for Research Evidence (and may be harmful)As some of you may know, this year my research efforts have been focused on missing persons cases. As a result, I am occasionally asked...
Commerce and ScienceI get a lot of political flak for not being the friendliest, most collaborative person in the policing community, because I tend to...
Re-examining the Hawthorne EffectIt is an accepted piece of wisdom that policing – like most institutions - has a graveyard out back full of failed, dead programs. I will...
We don’t Need a College of Policing, We Need a Building 10A recent issue of a Canadian police magazine featured an article advocating for a provincial Police College aimed at professionalizing...
Things that are difficult to speakOn Friday another police officer died from suicide. This is possibly the second such loss this week. Like many of us, my life has been...