Ratcliffe's random ramblings

The post draw on my c hat with David Décary-Hétu on the Reducing Crime podcast. You can listen here, or access it from just about any...

Here is a quick primer on the Koper Curve from the National Policing Institute. And here is the original publication that discusses the...

Also known as Group Violence Reduction Strategy these days.

The paper discussed in the video is this: Piza, E. L., & Chillar, V. F. (2021). The effect of police layoffs on crime: A natural...

The cited work is: Bates, L., Bennett, S., Irvine, C., Antrobus, E., & Gilmour, J. (2025). A procedurally just flyer reduces subsequent...