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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)

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Serving Communities – Researching Policing from the Inside

A Dialogue of Collaboration: External Academic Research with Front-Line Police Officers to Inform Management Policy

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The ‘Insider’ Researcher

‘Outside insiders’ (Brown 1996) are generally regarded as currently serving or former police

fficers 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).

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Ottawa Police – Traffic Stop Race Data Collection Project

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Front-Line Officer Interview Study

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A Dialogue of Collaboration

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‘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?

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Questions/Discussion

Gregory R. (Greg) Brown

Doctoral Researcher (Carleton University – Department

f 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)