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Carleton Expert Available – Ottawa Police Mental Health Response

Published on October 23, 2020

The Ottawa Police announced that the 2021 budget will include a new mental health response strategy. A Carleton expert is available to comment.

Greg Brown
Instructor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology

Email: gregoryr.brown@carleton.ca

Brown is available to discuss racial profiling, police brutality and discrimination in the criminal justice system.

Gregory R. (Greg) Brown is a Fulbright Scholar and spent 2016-2017 as a Fulbright Visiting Research Fellow in the School of Criminal Justice at the University at Albany, New York. His doctoral dissertation To Swerve and Neglect: De-Policing Throughout Today’s Front-Line Police Work, interrogated contemporary issues in rank-and-file policing from the perspective of 3,600 officers at 23 police departments across Canada and throughout the State of New York.

Brown has taught at the undergraduate and graduate levels in law, legal studies, criminal justice, criminology and sociology at Carleton, the University of Ottawa, the State University of New York, the University at Albany and Memorial University of Newfoundland. He has also delivered practitioner policing courses through the Ontario Police College and assisted on the Ontario Crown Attorney’s homicide prosecution course.

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