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Our mission is to help law enforcement professionals succeed in doctoral programs through tutoring, mentorship, coaching, and dissertation review. 

 

As current and former law enforcement who are also accomplished academic scholars, we understand the skills required and the unique challenges of pursuing graduate studies as a first responder. Whether you’re in police or corrections, sworn or support staff, we’re here to help you whenever you need it.

Our Services

  • Selecting and refining the research question

  • Perfecting the logic and elegance of writing

  • Finding the best data, selecting statistical methods, & coding well

  • Graphics, tables, and communicating results

  • Defense preparation & 'Mock Defense'

  • Turning a dissertation into peer reviewed publications

Who we serve

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  • Employed. Currently working for law enforcement agency:  Police, sheriff, jail, prison, probation/parole, pretrial services, and similar intuitions. 

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  • All staff. Sworn & civilian members of these agencies.

 

  • Family of those KIA. We offer dissertation coaching to spouses and children of police or correctional officers killed in action (free of charge). ​

Law enforcement graduate student

"Does consulting
make sense
for you?"

Are you having fun?

  • You should be filled with excitement and pride in your project.

  • If you're feeling uninspired -- or dread -- let's figure out what's going wrong and set things back on track.

Will consulting save you money?

  • Relative value. Will consulting get you finished faster?  If so, compare the price of consulting to the value of:​​

    • Avoided tuition​ if you finish sooner

    • Earlier access to workplace impacts (promotion/raise?)

    • Quicker return to normalcy for you, your family & your agency

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  • Grants. There are a variety of federal, state, and private sector grants for law enforcement professionals seeking higher education. Many of these can be used for consulting services like those offered here -- consider applying!

Service Details

Categories of assistance

  • Finding the right questions

  • Planning the research

  • Data acquisition

  • Data cleaning

  • Statistical strategy & analysis

  • Code review

  • Writing organization, flow, and substance

  • Results, graphics, and tables

  • Conclusions, limitations, & next steps

  • Defense preparation & presentation

  • Journal publication submissions & reviews

Methods of assistance

  • Disciplines: Criminology, Sociology, Psychology​​, Public Policy

  • Methods: Program evaluation, theory testing, modeling, prediction, policy analysis, randomized trials, cost-benefit analysis​​

  • Statistical: OLS regression, Logistic regression, Count outcomes, Survival analysis, Hierarchical modeling, Scale creation, Survey weighting, Missing data​

  • Software: STATA, SAS, SPSS, R, Python, Tableau​​

Topical Expertise

  • Demographics (Race, Sex, Age)

  • Violence against police

  • Solo versus group offending

  • Gangs & organized crime

  • Sexual offenders & registries

  • Human trafficking ​

  • Serial offending

  • Fugitive & warrant investigations

  • Missing children

  • Firearms

  • NIBRS

  • UCR

  • NCIC

Justice policy & design

  • Policing

  • Corrections

  • Sentencing

  • Discretion

  • Officer wellbeing

  • Recruitment &retention

  • Force & resistance ​

  • Crime reduction

  • Crime measurement

  • KPIs & forecasting

  • Task Forces & Fusion Centers

  • Public perceptions & legitimacy

  • Procedural Justice

“Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
It is the courage to continue
that counts.”

Winston Churchill

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