{"id":27480,"date":"2023-05-11T15:18:48","date_gmt":"2023-05-11T15:18:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/?p=27480"},"modified":"2025-06-10T09:11:22","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T13:11:22","slug":"contract-instructor-greg-brown-featured-in-article-by-toronto-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/2023\/contract-instructor-greg-brown-featured-in-article-by-toronto-star\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjunct Research Professor \nGreg Brown featured \nin discussions on recent changes to police recruitment in Ontario"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"w-screen px-6 cu-section cu-section--white ml-offset-center md:px-8 lg:px-14\">\n    <div class=\"space-y-6 cu-max-w-child-5xl  md:space-y-10 cu-prose-first-last\">\n\n            <div class=\"cu-textmedia flex flex-col lg:flex-row mx-auto gap-6 md:gap-10 my-6 md:my-12 first:mt-0 max-w-5xl\">\n        <div class=\"justify-start cu-textmedia-content cu-prose-first-last\" style=\"flex: 0 0 100%;\">\n            <header class=\"font-light prose-xl cu-pageheader md:prose-2xl cu-component-updated cu-prose-first-last\">\n                \n                                \n                            <\/header>\n\n                    <\/div>\n\n            <\/div>\n\n    <\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n\n\n<p>Adjunct Research Professor and Contract Instructor Greg Brown has been featured in a Toronto Star article as well as an interview on The Agenda with Steve Paikin, discussing the Ford government&#8217;s changes to Ontario police recruitment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Brown, who is a former police officer, said that he was surprised by the announcement as he believes that &#8220;we were moving on a trajectory toward requiring more education than less.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Highlighting concerns about mental-health, de-escalation, and recent controversies surrounding the police in Ontario, Brown says that &#8220;reversing the educational trajectory is the exact wrong way to handle that.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/carleton.ca\/socanth\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/111\/2023\/05\/Toronto-Star-article-9-May-2023-1.pdf\">Toronto Star article<\/a>, which features discussions about the post-secondary requirements for police officers in the province, was published on May 9th, 2023.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/can01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com\/?url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tvo.org%2Fvideo%2Fdoes-ontario-need-better-educated-police&amp;data=05%7C01%7CAshleyBergman%40cunet.carleton.ca%7C05c5b46129914c57feea08db56ed0d3a%7C6ad91895de06485ebc51fce126cc8530%7C0%7C0%7C638199348340130560%7CUnknown%7CTWFpbGZsb3d8eyJWIjoiMC4wLjAwMDAiLCJQIjoiV2luMzIiLCJBTiI6Ik1haWwiLCJXVCI6Mn0%3D%7C3000%7C%7C%7C&amp;sdata=k6Cm0W9x%2Bis62mv0jCZunnAHcSE1xclyehfw1y4OCaA%3D&amp;reserved=0\">interview<\/a>, hosted by Steve Paikin and broadcast on tvoToday, includes opinions from Dr. Greg Brown (Carleton University), Dr. Timothy Bryan (University of Toronto), and Mark Baxter (Police Association of Ontario).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Adjunct Research Professor and Contract Instructor Greg Brown has been featured in a Toronto Star article as well as an interview on The Agenda with Steve Paikin, discussing the Ford government&#8217;s changes to Ontario police recruitment. 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