Ratcliffe's random ramblings

The research on Mexican mini police stations (modules) is here: Massa, R., Fondevila, G., & Galindo Pérez, M. C. (2026). Allocating police stations: More police, less (low impact) crime. The Police Journal: Theory, Practice and Principles. https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0032258X261455746

Details of the program are here: https://www.fox13news.com/news/meet-splash-rescue-otter-helps-law-enforcement-agencies-crack-cold-cases

Here's the article: Meyer M. N., et al. , Objecting to experiments that compare two unobjectionable policies or treatments. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 116, 10723–10728 (2019). https://www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/pnas.1820701116

The full citation is: John M. MacDonald, Wilson Hernandez, Anthony A. Braga, Eugenia C. South, and Charles C. Branas: The Effects of Street Cleaning on Serious Crime and Gun Violence in Philadelphia, 2023–2024: A Stratified Randomized Controlled Trial American Journal of Public Health 0, e1_e9, https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.2026.308429

See the full study: Wong, J. S., Bouchard, J., Gravel, J., Bouchard, M., & Morselli, C. (2016). Can at-risk youth be diverted from crime? A meta-analysis of restorative diversion programs. Criminal Justice and Behavior, 43(10), 1310–1329.