policing

ViCAP usage and viability for sexual assault investigations: Findings from a survey of SAKI sites

In 2018, the Bureau of Justice Assistance Sexual Assault Kit Initiative (SAKI) began mandating SAKI funding awardees submit eligible cases to the Violent Criminal Apprehension Program (ViCAP), a database which allows for the identification and …

Unveiling the unseen: Documenting and analyzing nonfatal shootings by police

Some invited comments on an article by Julie Ward and team in AJPH

Staffing levels are the most important factor influencing police response times

We examine the factors influencing police response times, with a particular focus on staffing levels, calls for service (CFS), and proactive police work. We estimate Bayesian Holt-Winters state-space models for each CFS priority level. Using a novel …

Police shootings in Canada: An empirical analysis and call for data

We analyzed police shootings in Canada (except Québec) between 2017 and 2019. Drawing upon media reports and information provided by police oversight agencies, we attempted to identify all incidents where on-duty police officers discharged their …

American Policing in the Post-Ferguson Era

I was invited to write this essay for Fordham Urban Law Journal back in 2016. It was published in 2017. Recently, when I was pulling together my materials for promotion, I realized the URL was broken. It looks like they’re in the process of digitizing their entire archive, but while you can find issues going all the way back to the 1970s, my essay is nowhere to be found. Odd. But whatever, I’m posting it here.