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Brenda J. Bond, PhD Associate Professor Suffolk University Boston, Massachusetts 02108

Brenda J. Bond is an Associate Professor of Public Service in the Sawyer Business School at Suffolk University. Brenda’s area of expertise is the management and performance or police organizations. Her research and consulting centers on the structures, functions and processes that facilitate effective police organizations. She works with police leaders and researchers on organizational change and development, strategic management, and comprehensive approaches to community safety. She has extensive experience in grantwriting, program development and evaluation, various research methodologies in assessing crime, disorder and fear of crime, analyzing the quality and utilization of crime and community data, and facilitating police organizational change and management practice.

Brenda’s current research agenda includes an emphasis on administrative systems and processes, strategic and operational elements of evidence-based policing practices policing, and the use of inter-organizational strategies in achieving public safety outcomes. Brenda is a subject matter expert on the U.S. Department of Justice Bureau of Justice Assistance Smart Policing Initiative, and serves as a research fellow at the Police Foundation.

Prior to joining Suffolk University, Brenda served as Research Associate in the Program in Criminal Justice Policy and Management at the Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. Her previous professional activities include serving as Strategic Development and Resource Advisor for the Northeastern Massachusetts Law Enforcement Council, the Director of Research and Development for the Lowell, Massachusetts Police Department and as an Evaluator and Program Manager for a variety of community-based initiatives at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Brenda received her Ph.D. from the Heller School for Social Policy and Management at Brandeis University. She also has a Master's degree in Social Policy from Brandeis and a Master's Degree in Community Social Psychology from the University of Massachusetts Lowell. Specific experience and expertise:

Dr. Bond has extensive experience working with police agencies on organizational change and evaluation initiatives that are particularly relevant to the current proposal. She is an expert in analyzing organizational practices and recommending structural, functional or process improvements to achieve organizational goals. She has worked with small and large police agencies including the New Orleans Police Department, the Boston Police Department, Michigan State Police, the Savannah Metropolitan Police Department, and the Lowell and Springfield, Massachusetts Police Departments. She currently serves as a Subject Matter Expert for the BJA Smart Policing Initiative where she has coached local and state police agencies on change efforts. She serves as Research Partner for two research projects on organizational change in Lowell, Massachusetts. As a researcher, she is an expert at action research, primarily on qualitative research involving document reviews, interviews, focus groups and community surveying processes. Dr. Bond also works with local and national leaders on the development, implementation and evaluation of training and professional development efforts for law enforcement. She has over 20 years’ experience working in Lowell, an ethnically and economically diverse urban community. In her career, she has worked with various levels of government, grassroots community advocates and private agencies to improve and evaluate local public safety efforts. She is particularly focused on the social, economic and political dynamics surrounding the implementation of local public safety practices. Lastly, Dr. Bond has over two decades of experience writing and managing public safety grants, and has a solid track record of writing reports and academic publications.