Reducing Crime: A Companion for Police Leaders

How do I reduce crime in my police command? How do I tackle chronic crime problems? How do I address the long-term issues that have plagued my community? How do I analyze crime and criminal behavior? How do I show evidence of success in crime reduction? What works, what doesn’t, and how do we know? This book, designed for mid to senior level police command staff, answers these questions and more.

Training programs

Agencies can host in-person training for a three-day Police Commander's Crime Reduction Course led by author and policing researcher, Dr Jerry Ratcliffe. This highly rated course has been delivered to police services around the world, and is available for agencies to host on a limited availability. There is also a lower cost 3-4 hour online short course that provides an overview of the Police Commander's Crime Reduction Course.

The Reducing Crime podcast

A monthly podcast featuring conversations with influential thinkers in the police service and leading crime and policing researchers working to advance public safety. Often amusing, often enlightening, always informative. Jerry Ratcliffe chats to a range of international guests covering police, policing, crime science, criminology, criminal justice, and public safety policy. With nearly 300,000 downloads, it is criminology's most popular podcast.

Ratcliffe's random ramblings

If you follow Jerry Ratcliffe or Reducing Crime on LinkedIn, on Instagram (as reducingcrime_) or other social media, you may come across the occasional short video with details of an interesting study or snippet from a book.

This is the place to visit if you would like more details about a particular study, article or link that was mentioned in one of Ratcliffe's random ramblings.

About Jerry Ratcliffe

Jerry Ratcliffe is a former British police officer, a college professor, and creator of the Reducing Crime podcast. He works with police agencies around the world on crime reduction strategy, leadership, and evidence-based practice. He has published over 100 research articles and ten books. He is a professor of practice with the Department of Criminology and Faculty Director of the Masters in Applied Criminology and Police Leadership at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also a scientific advisor to the International Association of Chiefs of Police.