Professor and Police Staffing Observatory Director
Michigan State University
East Lansing, Michigan, United States
Jeremy M. Wilson, Ph.D., is a Professor of the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. He has founded and led five law enforcement centers and programs, including, most recently, the Police Staffing Observatory, which is an international consortium of over three-dozen police staffing experts that seek to support the community of practice. With nearly three decades of experience as a scholar, educator, advisor, and consultant, Dr. Wilson has led over $14M of research and has written over 175 publications, including A Performance-Based Approach to Police Staffing and Allocation as well as Police Recruitment and Retention for the New Millenium: The State of Knowledge, both of which serve as field standards. With support from the US Department of Justice, he is currently leading multiple national platforms of research and outreach on police staffing and evidence-based workforce planning. For his contributions to police research and practice, he was named a Distinguished Scholar by the American Society of Criminology Division on Policing, and the Police Section of the Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences honored him with the O.W. Wilson Award.
Evidence-Based Staffing and Resource Allocation
Sunday, October 20, 2024
2:00 PM – 3:00 PM ET