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Mar 24
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 how...

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What Compstat can learn from The Russia House

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 ...

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Jerry Ratcliffe

Sep 23, 2019
1 min

Ella Cockbain

Further information related to Ella Cockbain's Reducing Crime podcast episode.

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Ten ways to use the @_ReducingCrime podcast in class

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.

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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 conc...

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PIVOT (Place-based Investigations of Violent Offender Territories)

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 shootin...

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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? Th...

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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...

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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 Re...

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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 releva...

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How long division taught me to think about crime

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...

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