Bibliographic record
Abstract
In their proposed theme for the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police (CACP) Executive Global Studies Program, program co-moderators Davey and Taylor (2022) raised three crucial concerns related to the future of policing.Each concern is framed as a question, in the context of embracing a new generation, both inside and outside of police organizations.First, they asked "How do we remain a sustainable profession?"Second, "How do we respond to and best serve the needs of the people who have always, statistically, defined our primary market?"Third, "What do we do now in the face of broken trust?"I will address each of these questions in turn, but first, something completely different.John is a retired violin teacher.He studied music at Ithaca College, which then housed one of the most prestigious schools of music and music education in the nation.Everyone smoked, humans were preparing to employ World War II technology to send humans to walk on the moon.There was a bar in the dormitory.After college, he was drafted for service during the Vietnam War.In 1989, John's son attended that very same college, complete with a picture of John as a junior hanging on the wall opposite his dorm.HIV was on everyone's mind, as was the fall of the Berlin Wall.In 2024, John's grandchild will seek admission to college-the college where John's son works today-amid a resurgence of fascism, continued warfare, economic uncertainty, and the very real possibility of climate catastrophe.John, as superlative fathers are wont to do, introduced his son to a book.It is a children's book, really, but it has a grace sufficient to justify John's son assigning it for an undergraduate culminating seminar at the college where he works.Jonathan Livingston Seagull is about, well, a seagull.Readers witness a seagull being and becoming decidedly un-seagull-like, but in so doing, being and becoming the truest seagull.Jonathan, you see, liked to fly.Others of the flock, though, flew merely to get to the trawlers offshore or to beaches in order to have scraps hurled at them by beachgoers.Jonathan, outcast from the flock for his foolish flying, eventually ascended to higher planes of existence.Eventually, he became a great teacher of transcendent truth.In Jonathan, we might discern imprints of both Shakyamuni and Jesus; we might also witness the bastardization of their messages by those who seem to seek them.What are we to learn about policing in 2023 from a short children's book about beach birds?I'd say there are at least two things we can learn from a fictional seagull about what's broken in policing in both Canada and the United States.
Fetched live from OpenAlex and de-inverted. Abstracts are not stored in this database: the inverted indexes are 8.6 GB of the frame’s 9.3 GB of text, and the host has 13 GB free.
How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.003 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.005 | 0.001 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".