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RAND work on public safety issues ranges from policing and prisons to violent crime and the illegal drug trade, as well as homeland security and emergency preparedness. RAND delivers research that reflects our core values of quality and objectivity and helps inform policy debates that are often riddled with arguments driven not by evidence but by emotion and ideology.

Research conducted by: RAND Infrastructure, Safety, and Environment; RAND Europe; Safety and Justice Program; Center on Quality Policing; Center for Health and Safety in the Workplace; RAND Drug Policy Research Center

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Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

Codirector, RAND Drug Policy Research Center

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula

Rosalie Liccardo Pacula is a senior economist at the RAND Corporation and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. She serves as codirector of the RAND Drug Policy Research Center. Her research has largely focused on whether state and local public policies are cost-effective and effective…

Greg Ridgeway

Director, RAND Safety and Justice Program

Greg Ridgeway

Greg Ridgeway is director of the RAND Safety and Justice Program and of the RAND Center on Quality Policing, and a professor at the Pardee RAND Graduate School. Ridgeway is charged with managing RAND's portfolio on policing, crime prevention, courts, corrections, and public and occupational…

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