Dr. Gregory R. (Greg) Brown is the President and Lead Consultant of our firm; a business he developed and launched in 2008. Greg brings to this position a particularly unique and diverse background in the academic, educational, and policing/criminal justice worlds. He is a Fulbright Scholar and holds undergraduate degrees in history and criminology (magna cum laude) and an Honours Bachelor of Social Sciences with specialization in criminology (magna cum laude) from the University of Ottawa (Canada). Greg was awarded a Master of Arts (thesis with distinction), and then a doctorate, from Carleton University (Canada). In recognizing the “outstanding quality” of Dr. Brown’s work, and in recommending his Ph.D. thesis for a senate medal, external examiner Dr. Benjamin Goold (Professor of Law at the University of British Columbia) evaluated, “This thesis is – without exaggeration – one of the best doctoral dissertations I have read in the last ten years. As a researcher with a long-standing interest in police behaviour and policing organisations and in particular the choices made by front-line police officers, I found this thesis to be a deep and fascinating piece of scholarship.”

In 2022, Dr. Brown retired from his appointment as Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice within the School of Science, Health & Criminal Justice at the State University of New York and he continues, from time to time, to facilitate seminars and deliver courses in the departments of Law & Legal Studies and Sociology & Anthropology at Carleton University, where he is appointed Adjunct Research Professor. In previous years, Greg has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at the University at Albany (New York), the University of Ottawa, and Memorial University of Newfoundland (Canada). Professor Brown previously instructed practitioner-related courses delivered through the Ontario Police College (Canada) and he co-presented (with Deputy Crown Attorney Robin Flumerfelt) on the course Effective Homicide Prosecutions within the Ontario Ministry of the Attorney General/Ontario Crown Attorneys Association in-service continuing education training program at the University of Western Ontario’s Faculty of Law (Canada). Throughout 2016 and 2017, Dr. Brown was a Fulbright visiting researcher in the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany (New York) and, from 2019 to 2021, he was a postdoctoral visiting research fellow at Osgoode Hall Law School (York University, Canada).

Greg worked in operational policing for 28 years with one of Canada’s largest municipal police services and served on various joint-forces and multi-jurisdictional investigative initiatives throughout Ontario and Québec. He also worked in a criminal intelligence liaison capacity for five years with the Criminal Intelligence Service Ontario (under the auspices of Ontario’s Ministry of Community Safety & Correctional Services). In addition to several commendations for his police work over the years, in 2006, Dr. Brown was awarded the Police Exemplary Service Medal by the Governor General of Canada. His operational policing experience includes:

• Front-line (or primary response) policing – including assignments as a member of the crowd control unit (or ‘riot squad’, as it was known then), the emergency response unit, and as a coach (training) officer.
• Supervision of a platoon of front-line officers.
• Eight years working exclusively in ‘undercover’ illicit drug investigations.
• Designation, in 48 criminal cases, as a court-recognized expert witness in relation to organized crime, drug trafficking, money laundering, proceeds of crime, firearms, etc.
• Functioning as the lead investigator in a complex and protracted criminal investigation into police misconduct in two major Canadian police services — involving misappropriation of equipment, weapons, and ammunition.
• Eight years conducting primarily homicide investigations (along with select ‘major case’ investigations — e.g., kidnapping, armed robbery, extortion, etc.).

In addition to providing research, evaluations, strategic consultancy, and expert reviews/witness services for our clientele, Professor Brown continues to deliver informative, collaborative, and dynamic conference and workshop presentations for a range of clients. As an example, feedback from Greg’s July 2020 webinar, addressing police body-worn cameras in the Canadian context, included the following comments:

• “HUGE THANKS to Dr. Greg Brown (@gregoryroybrown) for sharing his world-class research expertise with a record number of Canadian attendees during yesterday’s body worn camera webinar.” (@Axon_Canada)
• “Great job @gregoryroybrown! As usual. Really enjoyed this.” (Dr. Craig Bennell, Professor and Director of the Police Research Lab at Carleton University)
• “Great webinar.” (Joseph Oliver, M.O.M. — former Chief Information Officer and Assistant Commissioner of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police)
• “Thanks Dr. Brown for this webinar. It was very informative and also gave us confidence in the way we do things here with our pilot project.” (Captain Maxime Mercier, Kativik Regional Police Force)
• “Well-done! Dr. Brown presents a very down to earth and common-sense perspective, based on his policing and academic backgrounds. Much appreciated!” (Chris Lewis, C.O.M. — Public Safety Analyst at CTV News and former Commissioner of the Ontario Provincial Police)
• “What a fantastic webinar! Great job by both @gregoryroybrown and moderator @axon_stefan. I was amazed not only at the number of attendees but the number and quality of the questions posed and comprehensive answers from Dr. Brown!” (Lance Valcour, O.O.M. —Senior Strategic Advisor, Axon Public Safety Canada)

Dr. Brown’s other recent activities (without confidentiality considerations) include:

• Reviewing materials (civil and/or criminal) for various Canadian law firms, preparation of reports (for trial preparation and/or evaluation of potential expert testimony), advising and collaborating on jury selection, witness preparation, trial strategy, etc.
• Facilitating educational sessions with such diverse organizations as the Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada, the Canadian Association of Chiefs of Police, the Canadian Public Safety Interoperability Workshop, the Police Association of Ontario, the Civilian Review and Complaints Commission for the RCMP, the United States Department of Justice, the Fraternité des policiers et policières de Montréal, the Canadian Association of Police Governance, the Ontario Association of Police Services Boards, and the Association des policières et policiers provinciaux du Québec.
• Delivering interactive conference presentations (including the 2022 keynote) addressing Policing’s New Reality: Police Work in the Post-George Floyd Era and Trauma-Informed Approaches to Assisting Police Officers Struggling with Mental Health Challenges (2021) at the Violence & Aggression symposiums hosted within the Centre for Forensic Behavioural Science and Justice Studies at the University of Saskatchewan.
• Presenting at the Annual Federal and Provincial Police Oversight Conference (hosted by the Commission for Public Complaints Against the RCMP).
• Serving on the faculty of the Federation of Law Societies’ National Criminal Law Program.
• Participating as a subject-matter expert in the Royal Canadian Mounted Police national workshop evaluating and considering body-worn video recording.
• Serving on the panel of experts throughout an independent use of force review, led by Chief Justice Neil Wittmann of the Alberta Court of Queen’s Bench (retired), for the Calgary Police Service.
• Delivering a conference paper on ‘policing’s new visibility‘ (Brown 2016, Goldsmith 2010) at the World Social Sciences Forum.
• Researching and producing a report (as a consultant) for the Ottawa Police Service, as part of that organization’s Traffic Stop Race Data Collection Project.

Professor Brown appears regularly as a commentator and analyst, across both mainstream and social media, in relation to current criminal justice issues. He is consultant for Cengage Learning Inc., editing the instructor manual and presentation slides for the popular criminal justice/criminology textbook CRIM: Introduction to Criminology and Dr. Brown serves as a reviewer for a variety of international scholarly journals, including: Criminology & Criminal Justice; the European Journal of Criminology; Police Quarterly; Current Issues in Criminal Justice; Policing: A Journal of Policy & Practice; and Policing & Society. Greg’s research has been published in various journals, throughout the academic community, including: the British Journal of Criminology; Police Practice & Research: An International Journal; and the International Criminal Justice Review. His chapter, ‘Police body-worn cameras in the Canadian context: Policing’s new visibility and today’s expectations for police accountability’, is featured in the 2021 Routledge book, Police on Camera: Surveillance, Privacy, and Accountability. Dr. Brown volunteers as a member of the nine-person police services board, serving as the community’s representative in relation to governance and oversight of policing in the Canadian municipality in which he resides. Since 2012, he has served, in a volunteer capacity, as a mentor for undergraduate and graduate students with learning disabilities (across all faculties at Carleton University — via the Paul Menton Centre for Students with Disabilities) and he is a presenter and author in relation to learning disability challenges/issues for university students. In 2018, Greg’s work as the lead investigator in charge of the Jennifer Teague homicide investigation (2005-2006) was featured in the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation’s second-season premiere episode of the primetime one-hour television program The Detectives (also airing across various platforms in the United States as The Case That Haunts Me and in the United Kingdom on Sky TV as Real Detective: North of the Border). Similarly, Dr. Brown’s work on that investigation is featured in the third-season premiere episode of the Bell Media (CTV) primetime one-hour television program Somebody’s Hiding Something (also airing across various streaming platforms in various countries).

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