Serving Communities – Researching Policing from the Inside A Dialogue of Collaboration: External Academic Research with Front-Line Police Officers to Inform Management Policy
The ‘Insider’ Researcher ‘Outside insiders’ (Brown 1996) are generally regarded as currently serving or former police officers that become academic researchers and conduct studies on policing (Brown 1996; Thomas 2014). Academics that are, or have formerly been, police practitioners have also been characterized as ‘ pracademics ’ (Sherman 2013).
Ottawa Police – Traffic Stop Race Data Collection Project
Front-Line Officer Interview Study
A Dialogue of Collaboration
‘Dialogue of the Deaf’ Academic: Why do the police ignore research findings? Police: Why don’t researchers produce useable knowledge? Academic: Why do the police always reject any study that is critical of what they do? Police: Why do researchers always show the police in a bad light? Academic: Why don’t police officers even read research reports? Police: Why can’t researchers write in plain English? Academic: Why are the police so bloody defensive? Police: Why are researchers so bloody virtuous? Academic: Why are the police unwilling to examine their own organizational performance? Police: Why are researchers unwilling to produce information that a practical person exercising power can use to change a limited aspect of the organization instead of theoretical and explanatory structures of no use to the problem-solver? Academic: Why do the police insist that they know better, when the researchers are the experts in knowledge construction? Police: Why do researchers write recipes when they can’t even cook?
Questions/Discussion Gregory R. (Greg) Brown Doctoral Researcher (Carleton University – Department of Sociology and Anthropology) Fulbright Visiting Researcher (University of Albany – School of Criminal Justice) Research Assistant (Sprott School of Business) Adjunct Instructor (State University of New) gregoryr.brown@carleton.ca
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