Jeff Rojek

Dr. Jeff Rojek is currently a tenured associate professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Michigan State University. He has authored or co-authored more than 60 research articles and reports covering topics that include police officer decision-making and performance, use of force, traffic stops, officer involved vehicle collisions, tactical units, officer misconduct review, public perceptions of the police, police involvement in research and police-researcher relationships. 

Rojek's articles appear in the leading criminology and criminal justice journals including Criminology, Journal of Research in Crime and Delinquency, Justice Quarterly, Journal of Quantitative Criminology, Policing and Police Quarterly. He is also the senior author on Developing and Maintaining Police-Researcher Partnerships to Facilitate Research Use: A Comparative Analysis (New York, NY; Springer, 2015). He has received $10 million in research funding from federal, state and local agencies as a principal or co-principal investigator to examine topics that include police practitioner-researcher partnerships, intelligence led-policing, violent crime, law enforcement response to disasters, officer-involved traffic collisions, officer safety, body worn cameras and officer decision-making. Prior to his academic career, Dr. Rojek was an officer with the Los Angeles Police Department.