Ratcliffe's random ramblings

Or more accurately, why officers 'think' about leaving policing. The easiest way to access a concise report on this reel is via the IACP . The full study available here is: Jacqueline M Drew, Elise Sargeant, Sherri Martin (2024) Why do police consider leaving the profession?: The interplay between job demand stress, burnout, psychological distress, and commitment, Policing: A Journal of Policy and Practice , Volume 18, 2024, paae036, https://doi.org/10.1093/police/paae036

The study cited is MacDonald J, Fagan J, Geller A (2016) The Effects of Local Police Surges on Crime and Arrests in New York City. PLoS ONE 11(6): e0157223. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0157223 The research study is open access so you can read the entire research report here .

Lorraine Mazerolle and colleagues undertook a systematic review of police-led legitimacy interventions to see if they had the desired outcome. The full citation is: Mazerolle, L., Bennett, S., Davis, J., Sargeant, E. and Manning, M. (2013), Legitimacy in Policing: A Systematic Review. Campbell Systematic Reviews , 9: i-147. https://doi.org/10.4073/csr.2013.1 You can read the entire study here , as it is open access.

The full study is available online and open access , and is Hodgkinson, W., Assaraf, N., Ariel, B., & Sutherland, A. (2025). Burglary...

Source: Kelling, G. L., Pate, T., Dieckman, D., & Brown, C. E. (1974). The Kansas City Preventive Patrol Experiment: A Summary Report ....

At the time of publishing this video, the full results have not yet been published. The results are from direct communication from Dave...

This report is from a 2024 Campbell Collaboration systematic review. The full citation is: Catlin, M., Wilson, D. B., Redlich, A. D., Bettens, T., Meissner, C. A., Bhatt, S., & Brandon, S. E. (2024). Interview and interrogation methods and their effects on true and false confessions: A systematic review update and extension. Campbell Systematic Reviews , 20(4), e1441. Here's the full report .

The video cites the work of Elisa Facchetti, in work published by the Institute of Fiscal Studies. I cited work from a pdf published on their website and available directly here .

Here is a three-page summary of the experiment from Police Chief magazine. For academics, the full published results can be found here:...

The study can be found described in: Bennett, S., Gilmour, J., Carr, K., Helton, K., & Anderson, K. (2025). Evaluating the impact of...

The full article this video refers to is: Ratcliffe, JH & Hyland, SS (2025) Police stops and naïve denominators, Crime Science , 14, 10. You can access the entire article here .

The Turning Point randomized trial, with background information was published in Neyroud, P. (2024). A diverting quarter century?...

The post draws on my c hat with Cliff Stott on the Reducing Crime podcast. You can listen here, or access it from just about any podcast...

The Reducing Crime podcast episode with Carmen Best can be found at: Apple: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/35-carmen-best/id141281...

The reel is based on recently pu blished work by Jens Ludwig and Kevin Schnepel in the Annual Review of Criminology. It is publicly...

The VIPER checklist was developed for the PANDA Crime reduction approach. Both are described in depth in the book, Reducing Crime: A...

Why gun buybacks don't reduce crime Here is a link to some relatively recent research I published on gun buybacks in Philadelphia:...

The reel is based on the work of Eric Piza and colleagues, and you can find it here: Piza, E. L., Caplan, J. M., Kennedy, L. W., &...

Data and reports related to the Bureau of Justice Statistics Police-Public Contact Survey are available here: https://bjs.ojp.gov/library...

Here is a link to the brief description of the Dallas Crime Plan in Police Chief magazine . A subscription may be required (but I don't...