Our Services
1:1 Coaching & Review
Offering personalized one-on-one coaching and editing services for dissertations, thesis, research studies, and peer reviewed publications.
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Ensuring law enforcement professionals maximize the speed, quality, and impact of their research.
- A tailored approach designed to meet the specific needs of law enforcement professionals, providing comprehensive support and guidance throughout the academic and publication process.
Categories of assistance
- Refining research questions
- Planning the study
- Data acquisition
- Data cleaning
- Statistical strategy & analysis
- Code review
- Results, graphics, and tables
- Conclusions, limitations, & next steps
- Writing organization, flow, and substance
- Defense preparation & presentation
- Journal publication submissions & review responses
Methods of assistance
Disciplines: Criminology, Sociology, Psychology
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Methods: Program evaluation, theory testing, modeling, prediction, policy analysis, randomized trials, cost-benefit analysis
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Statistical: Regression (normal, binary, ordered, nominal, count, and nested -- HLM/Fixed & Random effects); Scale creation; Missing data
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Software: STATA, SAS, SPSS, Python, Tableau​
About Dave
Dr. David Bierie is a dedicated professional with a unique blend of academic and applied experience in law enforcement. He is passionate about supporting law enforcement professionals in their academic and professional endeavors.
Law Enforcement
Dave entered law enforcement more than 20 years ago, first as a diversion coordinator for youth, then expanding to juvenile detention, prison transports, court security, prison inspections, intensively supervised probation, and teaching in jails.
Since then, he has accumulated experience in city, county, state, & federal corrections, policing, courts, resource allocation, evaluation, and policy making.
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Dr. Bierie has consulted on numerous investigations, created new investigative techniques, designed domestic and international operations, crafted performance metrics, built data architecture and visual analytic dashboarding systems, impacted legislation, and given more than a hundred presentations to local, federal, and international law enforcement practitioners.​​
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. ​
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He 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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Dave has served on several federal working groups and statistical boards, including six years on the Research Advisory Committee of the IACP. He has won more than a dozen awards for his contributions to investigations, operations, and policy. ​
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“Success is not final, failure is not fatal:
It is the courage to continue
that counts.”
Winston Churchill
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