Launched by Dr Jarrett Blaustein, Adaptive Policing Lab (APL) is dedicated to advancing knowledge, practices and partnerships that support more just, ethical and socially responsive approaches to public safety. Grounded in the core values of authenticity, collaboration, equity and ethical engagement, the APL explores how policing actors and security networks adapt—or fail to adapt—to the interconnected crises of our time, including climate disruption, technological change, and deepening social inequality.

We maintain strong collaborative links with police and other research institutes who are working to better understand how established and emergent policing actors make sense of and respond to new and emergent forms of harm and risk.

The APL’s current initiatives include:

• Developing innovative frameworks for improving the adaptability of policing actors.
• Bringing the work of policing actor into alignment with systemic approaches to governing new and emerging ‘harm landscapes’, including climate change and algorithmic governance.
• Understanding the emergence of new security nodes in the face of complex harms and adaptive governance networks.

The APL is committed to fostering an inclusive research culture and building meaningful partnerships to support collaborative research, capabilities development, and knowledge translation activities.