A significant focus of Huey's research is the politics of policing. Her first book, Negotiating Demands: The Politics of Skid Row Policing in Edinburgh, San Francisco and Vancouver, draws on field-based research to comparatively examine "the influence of local political, moral, and economic issues on police practices within marginalized communities"Huey, Laura. 2007. Negotiating Demands: The Politics of Skid Row Policing in Edinburgh, San Francisco and Vancouver. Toronto: University of Toronto Press. within three 'liberal', yet very different types of 'liberal' cities. While the political aspects of policing remained a research interest in the period that followed, it wasn't until 2022 that she released another book in this area. The Wicked Problems of Police Reform in CanadaHuey, Laura, Lorna Ferguson and Jennifer Schulenberg. 2022. The Wicked Problems of Police Reform in Canada. New York: Routledge. draws on twenty years of empirical data to present the public policy issues associated with the politics surrounding public police reform. Her current project continues to explore this interest but within the context of public order policing: #OccupyOttawa: An Oral History.
