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Greg Ridgeway, Director

Greg Ridgeway is the Acting Director of RAND's Safety & Justice Research Program and a Senior Statistician.

Dr. Ridgeway's areas of expertise include policing, race issues in policing, drug policy and drug treatment evaluation, gun policy.

Dr. Ridgeway's recent reports include

• Analysis of Racial Disparities in the New York Police Department's Stop, Question, and Frisk Practices
• Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati: Year Two Evaluation Report
• The Criminal Purchase of Firearm Ammunition
• Testing for Racial Profiling in Traffic Stops From Behind a Veil of Darkness

See all RAND publications by Dr. Ridgeway.

Dr. Ridgeway received his Ph.D. in Statistics from the University of Washington, Seattle.

Jeremy M. Wilson, Associate Director

Jeremy M. Wilson is a Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation. He also holds the Willett Chair in Public Safety in the Center for Public Safety at Northwestern University and is a certified trainer in the Center's Police Executive Management Program. He also is an Adjunct Professor in the Heinz School of Public Policy and Management at Carnegie Mellon University.

Dr. Wilson's areas of expertise include community- and problem-oriented policing, police administration, violence prevention, program evaluation, internal security, and the reconstruction of democratic police and justice systems. He has collaborated on studies with police organizations and task forces throughout the United States.

Dr. Wilson's recent books include

• Community Policing and Violence Prevention in Oakland: Measure Y in Action
• Recruitment and Retention: Lessons for the New Orleans Police Department
• Human Trafficking in Ohio: Markets, Responses, and Considerations
• Community Policing in America
• Police-Community Relations in Cincinnati
• State and Local Intelligence in the War on Terrorism
• Establishing Law and Order After Conflict

See all RAND publications by Dr. Wilson.

Dr. Wilson received his Ph.D. in Public Administration from The Ohio State University.

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