But then again … sometimes bigger IS better!Yes, I know. Last week I argued that small is beautiful and now here I am contradicting myself. However, then I was talking about...
Does Size Really Matter?Although this is a subjective matter, I’m going to with: Yes. I’m talking about police agency size, of course, as in does the size of a...
Creativity within Policing: Cool Idea #1Last year, I co-hosted an evidence based policing workshop with the Calgary Police Service. The big star attraction was my friend, Alex...
Verify, verify ... and then verifyI have a strange collection on my hard drive. It consists of coroner’s inquiry records for all of the police-involved homicides from the...
Why We Can't Have Nice Things: Police EthnographyA few years ago, the esteemed policing researcher Peter Manning wrote a paper that documented in rather stark terms the decline of...
Stop … Just, Stop.Last year I was invited to speak at an event hosted by the Canadian Chamber of Commerce. At first, I assumed it was a mistake. A new...