Researchers should be involved in every aspect of the police organization, so long as they do not place the police officers or themselves in danger. Innovation is the key to improvement and sometimes an outside perspective is needed in the same way that we often need to take a step back or a break. These innovations include both technology and proposed structural/organizational improvements to police departments. The federal government in agreeance with this assessment started the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) Journal, to which it allocates millions of dollars towards research grants every year. In 2016, the journal received $249,700,127 in funding to for research on 453 projects including improving sexual assault test kits, the effects
