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How the Principles of Good Dating Practice Can Help You Build Better Research Relationships

One of the things that always gets either a chuckle or a grimace from the male police officers in some of my meetings is when I use the...

Beware the Predator: Pay to Play Journals

As a researcher with a publication track record, it is not at all unusual for me to receive invitations to participate in various...

You Don’t Need to be a Statistician to Understand Research Methods

I will begin this blog with two confessions: I have mild numbers dyslexia (and therefore someone always has to check even the simplest of...

Police Residency Requirements (Or Why I Love Police Twitter)

The other week the Globe and Mail published an article that looked at Toronto police officer residency (based on postal codes of officer...

Protecting Research Openness by Not Stealing Other People’s Ideas

I was on the phone with a dear friend. We were having a delightfully unguarded and unfiltered rant session about intellectual property...

Street Checks, Volume II

In response to last week’s post about the research (or lack thereof) surrounding street checks, one poster on LinkedIn asked, “Would it...

Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Absence: Street Checks

In a report on street checks recently released by Justice Michael Tulloch, he stated, “there is little to no evidence that a random,...

I’m Not Smarter than You, I’ve Just Been Doing This a Lot Longer

When it comes to the police practitioner-researcher relationship, on occasion there is a type of amnesia that seems to affect some, but...

The State of Canadian Policing Research – Let's do Better in 2019

Last week the leader of the Conservative party posted a tweet with talking points about giving "police forces the resources they need to...

Rossi’s Laws (Or on the Wisdom of Being (at Least Slightly) Skeptical)

Policing is full of programs and policing research is often full of program evaluations. I am not alone in noting that most of these...