In June 13, IACP President Walter McNeil welcomed Laurie O. Robinson, former assistant attorney general of the U. S. Department of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, from 2009 to 2012, and now professor of criminology, law, and society at the George Mason University in Fairfax, Virginia, as the IACP Research Advisory Committee (RAC) academic cochair. Professor Robinson joins her counterpart, RAC practitioner cochair Ed Davis, commissioner of the Boston, Massachusetts, Police Department, to lead the committee. Commissioner Davis is also relatively new to his role, having been appointed in 2011.