EPISODE ALERT: 🚨#97 with Mike Scott, director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing is now available. He chats with @jerryratcliffe.net about the history of, and challenges promoting, problem-oriented policing. Apple: apple.co/3U3GqHG Spotify: bit.ly/3ISVxOG SoundCloud: bit.ly/3Rl9tWz

#97 (Mike Scott)

Podcast Episode · Reducing Crime · July 30 · 36m

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Fantastic @reducingcrime.com podcast discussion between my colleague Shane Johnson and @jerryratcliffe.net on some of the many ways all types of crime are changing due to technology. Essential listening if you’re interested in crime of any sort.

#96 (Shane Johnson)

Stream #96 (Shane Johnson) by Reducing Crime on desktop and mobile. Play over 320 million tracks for free on SoundCloud.

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EPISODE ALERT 🚨: #96 now available! @jerryratcliffe.net talks to @ucl.ac.uk Dawes Professor of Future Crime #Shane_Johnson about cybercrime, how the internet of things creates crime opportunities, and ... toasters? 👇 Apple: apple.co/4f6qzzl Spotify: bit.ly/4aEUInZ

in this video in like 4 different ways and I hate that

Join me in a couple of weeks for an online zoom session to learn more about the UPenn Master of Applied Criminology and Police Leadership program. Details: www.linkedin.com/events/74652...

Join me in a couple of weeks for an online zoom session to learn more about the UPenn Master of Applied Criminology and Police Leadership program. Details: www.linkedin.com/events/74652...

With fewer reviewers and AI helping generate more academic articles, anticipate more desk rejects. Not because articles aren't technically proficient, but because editors will have to be more selective. I foresee editors will have much greater influence in the future.

PODCAST ALERT 🚨 #94 @jerryratcliffe.net talks with Ukrainian police consultant Bohdan Denysenko on wartime policing in Ukraine—Soviet legacies, EU reforms, and the shift to intelligence-led policing amid changing crime risks. Listen: Apple: apple.co/4w0oZ9I Spotify: bit.ly/4tI8Owg

#94 (Bohdan Denysenko)

Podcast Episode · Reducing Crime · April 29 · 32m

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New podcast episode finds me sitting in a Kyiv cafe sipping latte with Baileys after discussing whether we should leave the building during a missile attack. It's a funny old world... Anyway, here we are talking about decision-makers in the intelligence cycle 👇

Reducing Crime@reducingcrime.com · 3mo ago

PODCAST ALERT 🚨 #94 @jerryratcliffe.net talks with Ukrainian police consultant Bohdan Denysenko on wartime policing in Ukraine—Soviet legacies, EU reforms, and the shift to intelligence-led policing amid changing crime risks. Listen: Apple: apple.co/4w0oZ9I Spotify: bit.ly/4tI8Owg

Excellent from @jerryratcliffe.net - Diversion | Mental Health | Alternative Responses | The "Doorman" Fallacy. "Alternative responders have a narrow role. For all their imperfections, police, like hotel doormen, have a broad social function." www.vitalcitynyc.org/policing-alt...

Why It (Almost) Always Makes Sense to Send the Cops

Civilian alternative response systems are badly oversold.

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"The current case for alternative response as a...replacement for the police...is grounded in weak analysis and skirts over potential adverse outcomes. Worse, these efforts may deflect attention from the potential benefits of improving law enforcement capability" www.vitalcitynyc.org/policing-alt...

Why It (Almost) Always Makes Sense to Send the Cops

Civilian alternative response systems are badly oversold.

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"Advocates of a public health approach to violence deploy carefully selected data to point out that crime control is a small part of policing. Clearly someone forgot to tell folk in Philadelphia". 2/3rds of police patrol is crime or disorder related. www.vitalcitynyc.org/policing-alt...

Why It (Almost) Always Makes Sense to Send the Cops

Civilian alternative response systems are badly oversold.

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"Debates about alternative responses often place significant weight on 'lived experience' as a qualification for service providers. There is limited evidence here, and what evidence does exist is mixed," @jerryratcliffe.net writes. www.vitalcitynyc.org/policing-alt...

Why It (Almost) Always Makes Sense to Send the Cops

Civilian alternative response systems are badly oversold.

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Alternative police response continues to be promoted as a silver bullet without any downsides, but I think there are risks and unanticipated possible adverse outcomes that haven’t been considered. Take a read. You be the judge. www.vitalcitynyc.org/policing-alt...

Against Alternative Response

Civilian alternative response systems are badly oversold.

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Pleased to announce the entire first issue of @evidencebasejnl.bsky.social is available to read online until May 31st. www.tandfonline.com/toc/rebj20/c...

Evidence Base

Volume 1, Issue 1 of Evidence Base

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"A shortage of ‘copaganda fascists’ and the need for more police pracademics" by @jerryratcliffe.net from our inaugural issue @evidencebasejnl.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

"The defund police movement offers few evidence-based ideas to deal with gang violence. Their primary recommendation—violence interrupters and gang outreach workers—has a very mixed evidence base characterized by a prevalence of null and backfire effects on serious violence"

You’ve probably already both seen this paper by @jerryratcliffe.net that uses victim descriptions of suspects to try to overcome the problem of trying to judge disparities in offending from arrest data. doi.org/10.1186/s401...

Police stops and naïve denominators - Crime Science

A comparison of the racial composition of police stops to the entire population of a city or jurisdiction is frequently cited as evidence of racial bias in proactive policework. This article argues th...

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The UPenn Master of Applied Criminology and Police Leadership is now accepting applications for the next cohort that will start in the Fall. This is the first dedicated policing degree at an Ivy League institution. Learn more at www.lps.upenn.edu/degree-progr... vimeo.com/1171507776/e...

MCPL overview 2026 (subtitled)

This is "MCPL overview 2026 (subtitled)" by Reducing Crime on Vimeo, the home for high quality videos and the people who love them.

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Peter Moskos may not be popular with the progressive 'we hate policing' folk, but he is a reasonable and honest critic of good & bad policing. New ep Thursday, but for now enjoy this snippet from the current episode, with Peter talking about what you are judged on when you join a police shift.

Reducing Crime@reducingcrime.com · 5mo ago

New episode of the podcast coming on Thursday, but for now enjoy this snippet from the current episode, with Peter Moskos talking about what you are judged on when you join a police shift.

We won the cold war, and then gave it all away. What a betrayal.

The Kyiv Independent@kyivindependent.com · 6mo ago

⚡️US military aid to Ukraine dropped 99% in 2025, report finds. European countries stepped in to fill the gap, increasing military aid to Ukraine by 67% and non-military support by 59% in 2025, according to the Kiel Institute for the World Economy.

New pod out with @jerryratcliffe.net! Jerry is one of the smartest voices out there working to use research & science to improve policing. Give it a listen! Apple - podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/t... Spotify - open.spotify.com/episode/4k6E... Amazon - music.amazon.com/podcasts/cad...

This is the most astonishing graph of what the Trump regime has done to US science. They have destroyed the federal science workforce across the board. The negative impacts on Americans will be felt for generations, and the US might never be the same again. www.nature.com/immersive/d4...

Police departments struggle to find research partners, in part because academic criminology has actively worked against policing research for some years now. Source: www.jerryratcliffe.net/_files/ugd/f...

Do you explore intersections between digitalization and geography of crime? @asiermoneva.com, Wim Bernasco and I look forward to your contribution to our guest-edited special issue “The Geography of Crime in the Digital Era”. See call for papers (www.sciencedirect.com/journal/jour...). Please share.

The first paper in our inaugural collection is now out. Much thanks @jerryratcliffe.net www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

A shortage of ‘copaganda fascists’ and the need for more police pracademics

This essay examines the evolving relationship between policing and academia, highlighting the increasing significance of pracademics – police practitioners with scientific training who, like embedd...

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Crime nerds, I need help. @LessCrime's excellent RSS feed recently posted an article about what I think was a study looking at if people took more cyber crime prevention advice when it was from authorities rather than hackers (if I recall), but now I can't find it. Anyone help? @asiermoneva.com?

BlueSky filesize limits are a p.i.t.a, but if you want weekly summaries of key crime and policing studies and ideas, please follow reducingcrime_ over at instagram, or Reducing Crime on LinkedIn.

Reducing Crime@reducingcrime.com · 9mo ago

If you are on Instagram there's a 90 second summary of the Philadelphia Predictive Policing Experiment findings. (BlueSky doesn't let us post 90 second videos because the file size is too large) www.instagram.com/reel/DPjPS_Q...

This week is the ASC conference, so here’s mentions of “abolish” in recent programs: 2021 1 program, 5 submissions 2022 1 submission 2023 4 programs, 5 subs 2024 5 programs, 3 subs 2025 2 programs (not incl. one about abolishing nuclear weapons) Is this idea's rampant stupidity finally receding?

The American Society of Criminology conference is next week and this is your annual reminder that most of the presentations will likely be 💩 Here are some ways to be less 💩 www.jerryratcliffe.net/post/i-want-...

I want a refund for your conference presentation

There is a problem with academic criminal justice and criminology, and it’s getting worse.I’ve attended several conferences and meetings in the last three months. And the standard of presentation is d...

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