Law Enforcement Agencies and Empirical Research

Should Law Enforcement Agencies Continue To Conduct Empirical Research To Evaluate Their Initiatives Or Strategies?

I do believe that law enforcement agencies should continue to conduct empirical research to evaluate their initiatives or strategies because we see that the idea of empirical research law as legality grew out of—and has further promoted—much current research on legal consciousness (Cheek, pp. 375-409), exploring how law is experienced, understood, and enacted by people in their interactions with formal-legal authorities and in their everyday lives in an empirical ways. The empirical research in law provides on-ground reality-based data and this helps ...