Dr. Victoria Sytsma (Associate Professor) commented on a recent police initiative designed to mitigate public drug use in Kingston, in (September 19, 2025, CBC News).
Dr. Sytsma is an applied criminologist who specializes in policy and program evaluation and quantitative data analysis. She has done evaluations in a wide range of areas, including student mentoring, police run organized-crime countermeasures, and juvenile offender reentry. She has published papers on open-air drug markets and municipal policing and often employs quantitative or mixed methods approaches.