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"Unlocking Evidence-based Capacity of

Law Enforcement Professionals & Organizations"

Our Services

  • Dissertation coaching

  • Agency research agenda & strategy

  • Agency research proposals & products

  • Taking evidence to practice

Service Details

What we do

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Ensuring law enforcement professionals maximize the speed, quality, and impact of their research by offering personalized one-on-one review, editing, and advising services on research by/for law enforcement agencies as well as theses & dissertations by agency personnel.​​​

Law enforcement graduate student

Who we serve​

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  • Law enforcement agencies. Research programs for Police, sheriff, jail, prison, probation/parole, pretrial services, and similar intuitions. 

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  • Law Enforcement staff. Sworn & civilian members of these agencies in their pursuit of graduate degrees.​​

 

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

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How we do it

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By offering a tailored approach designed to meet your specific needs:

 

  • When it comes to graduate student support, this might be as simple as a reading and returning edits on a single chapter of the dissertation, or it could be reading the entire paper and returning written suggestions followed by video conferences to workshop suggestions.

 

  • When it comes to agency support, this might be as simple as reviewing and advising on a handful of proposals following solicitation for a study, or it could mean reviewing completed work(s) and holding in-depth conversations about quality of findings and implementation strategy. 

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​​

  • 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

  • Firearms

  • Solo versus group offending

  • Gangs & organized crime

  • Sexual offenders & registries

  • Human trafficking ​

  • Serial offending

  • Fugitive & warrant investigations

  • Missing children

  • NIBRS

  • UCR

  • NCIC

Justice policy & design

  • Policing

  • Corrections

  • Sentencing

  • Task Forces & Fusion Centers

  • Officer wellbeing

  • Recruitment &retention

  • Force & resistance ​

  • Crime reduction

  • Crime measurement

  • KPIs & forecasting

  • Discretion ​

  • Public perceptions & legitimacy

  • Procedural Justice

David Bierie

About Dave

Dr. David Bierie is a dedicated professional with a unique blend of academic and applied experience in policing, courts, and corrections.  He is passionate about supporting law enforcement professionals in their academic and professional endeavors.

Academia

Dr. Bierie's research has culminated in more than 40 articles published in peer reviewed journals, and hundreds of presentations to academic, law enforcement, and policymaking audiences. His work has been cited by scholars in six languages across three continents, accumulated nearly 2,000 citations in published research, and referenced in court and congressional testimony. ​​​

Dave has taught courses at the university level for more than 20 years, including Psychology, Police Administration, Corrections, Criminal Justice, Research Methods, & The Psychology of Criminal Conduct. 

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Dr. Bierie has served on several federal working groups and statistical boards, including the Research Advisory Committee of the IACP.  He has won more than a dozen awards for his contributions to investigations, operations, and policy. ​​​

Law Enforcement

Dave entered law enforcement more than 20 years ago, first as a diversion coordinator for youth, then expanding to gang interventions, juvenile detention, prison transports, court security, prison inspections, intensively supervised probation, and teaching in jails. Throughout his career, he has accumulated experience in city, county, state, & federal agencies working on corrections, policing, courts, resource allocation, evaluation, and policy making. 

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Dr. Bierie has consulted on criminal investigations, domestic and international operations, performance metrics, data architecture, visual analytic dashboarding systems, and legislation.  Dave's key to success?  Persistently listening to law enforcement professionals in order to find and solve problems that matter to them. â€‹â€‹

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

Winston Churchill

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