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The goal of this podcast is provide the police community with research information to improve their work or help solve a problem. I could not do this without the research that is produced by scholars who have a solid working relationship with police agencies. It’s helpful that this topic itself, police-researcher collaborations, has been studied to understand the motivations and barriers to this relationship. Dr. Jeff Rojek from Michigan State University discusses his work in this area. One of the more important findings from the research may be the result of what the study does not examine: both sides, the police and the researcher, have a responsibility to cultivate these relationships.

Main Topics

• Larger agencies are more likely to have a relationship with a researcher (no surprise there, really).
• A researcher may carry a larger burden when cultivating these relationships.
• Researchers should produce a research that is both tactically and strategically useful to the police. Translate the research into a usable framework.

Citation: Rojek, J., Shjarback, J. A., Hansen, J. A., & Alpert, G. P. (2019). Present but not prevalent: identifying the organizational correlates of researcher-practitioner partnerships in US Law Enforcement. Police Practice & Research, 20(6).

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