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...
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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 Science
I 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 Effect
It 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 10
A recent issue of a Canadian police magazine featured an article advocating for a provincial Police College aimed at professionalizing...
Things that are difficult to speak
On Friday another police officer died from suicide. This is possibly the second such loss this week. Like many of us, my life has been...
Sprinting for Research
This past week I was in San Diego speaking to a group of American police association leaders about the importance of research and all of...
"You have the brains, I have the looks ... let's save lots of money*"
A couple of weeks ago I had the pleasure of speaking at the International Crime Analysts' Training Conference in Maryland. And for those...
Gun Violence and the 'Power Few'
I'm not usually a big reader of magazines, unless I'm stuck at the airport. Then I can usually be found with piles of them in my arms as...
If Craig Can Have a List, So Can I (2018 Policing Research)
Every year for the past few years, I do an annual stock-taking of where we're at in terms of producing good quality policing research....
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