Jerry Ratcliffe
Ten ways to use the Reducing Crime podcast in class, updated for summer 2022
Looking for multimedia for your fall policing class? Here are ten topics covered by the @_ReducingCrime podcast with some ideas for...
The Reducing Crime blog
Search
Jerry Ratcliffe
- Mar 24, 2020
- 4 min
Fatal shootings by police; a podcast clarification
In my podcast episode with Dr. Phil Goff I outlined some rough estimates on numbers of people shot and killed by police in a year, and...
447 views2 comments
Jerry Ratcliffe
- Nov 5, 2019
- 3 min
What Compstat can learn from The Russia House
The publication of a new novel by the master of the spy genre John le Carré got me thinking about one of his other works, the underrated...
716 views0 comments
Jerry Ratcliffe
- Sep 23, 2019
- 1 min
Ella Cockbain
Further information related to Ella Cockbain's Reducing Crime podcast episode.
234 views0 comments
Jerry Ratcliffe
- Aug 1, 2019
- 2 min
Ten ways to use the @_ReducingCrime podcast in class
Ideas for instructors looking for ways to add interesting multimedia activities to their class.
209 views0 comments
Jerry Ratcliffe
- Apr 2, 2019
- 1 min
Evidence hierarchy
After a course assignment in my evidence-based policing class, it was clear that a few of my students were still struggling with the...
1,464 views2 comments
Jerry Ratcliffe
- Jan 11, 2019
- 4 min
PIVOT (Place-based Investigations of Violent Offender Territories)
In this guest blog, Dr. Tamara Herold explains the award-winning PIVOT project and how Cincinnati has used it to reduce crime and...
1,764 views0 comments
Jerry Ratcliffe
- Dec 19, 2018
- 2 min
Gun buy-back programs (a primer)
What is it? Gift certificates, cash or other forms of compensation given, usually anonymously, in exchange for firearms. Does it work?...
213 views0 comments
Jerry Ratcliffe
- Dec 17, 2018
- 2 min
Hot spots policing (a primer)
What is it? Hot spots policing strategies increase police attention to places with concentrated criminal opportunities. Does it work? Hot...
1,238 views0 comments
Jerry Ratcliffe
- Oct 16, 2018
- 4 min
Operation Winter Shield
In this guest blog, vignette author Police Scotland Chief Inspector Martin Gallagher outlines Operation Winter Shield. In chapter 4 of...
182 views0 comments
Jerry Ratcliffe
- Oct 7, 2018
- 1 min
How to use reducingcrime.com
The Reducing Crime website supports readers of the book in a number of ways. First, the chapters pages provide links to additional...
168 views1 comment
Jerry Ratcliffe
- Jan 13, 2018
- 3 min
How long division taught me to think about crime
On a recent intelligence-led policing course I was teaching in El Salvador, we were talking about how to tackle complicated problems. And...
268 views1 comment