A while back I discussed the difficulties for a researcher in trying to do a field based observational study on a topic that could...

One of my least favourite parts of being a researcher is you have to sit through conference presentations. I have never been good at...

Yes, I know. Last week I argued that small is beautiful and now here I am contradicting myself. However, then I was talking about...

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...

Last year, I co-hosted an evidence based policing workshop with the Calgary Police Service. The big star attraction was my friend, Alex...

I have a strange collection on my hard drive. It consists of coroner’s inquiry records for all of the police-involved homicides from the...

A few years ago, the esteemed policing researcher Peter Manning wrote a paper that documented in rather stark terms the decline of...

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...

We’ve all seen it: the spectacle of the ‘talking head’ on television or in print, discoursing forcefully on some subject matter in which...

As a rule, I try not to get drawn into stupid political commentary. However, every once in a while, something comes across my electronic...