Jerry Ratcliffe
@Jerry_Ratcliffe
University prof, ex-🇬🇧 cop, host @_ReducingCrime podcast. ✍️“Evidence-Based Policing: The Basics” 🇺🇸 via 🏴🏴🇦🇺
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Nice of Cliff Stott, world-leading crowd psychology expert, to start his talk at the global societies of evidence-based policing conference in Cambridge with my definition of EBP.
John MacDonald from University of Pennsylvania outlining some key facts about crime and offending.
All #police and public should remember this! Stop & search SHOULD BE TARGETED to match the below in the #UK Or are people just happy with young, black men dying?!
Ian Brennan showing, with a @LessCrime graph, the substantial racial disparity in UK homicide rates. That’s Black victims in the red bars.
Ian Brennan showing, with a @LessCrime graph, the substantial racial disparity in UK homicide rates. That’s Black victims in the red bars.
Alex Murray from the Society of Evidence-Based Policing kicks off the global societies meeting in Cambridge to a packed room.
Lol this is hilarious. The Phillies had a kiss cam and had the Phillie Phanatic re-enact the Coldplay affair😂
New paper by a number of authors finds that UK youth more likely to be stopped by police if they self-report carried knives, engaged in violent or non-violent offending, affiliated w street gangs, or consumed cannabis or alcohol. Good policing then👍 academic.oup.com/bjc/advance-ar…
US cities are underpoliced. instagram.com/reducingcrime_/
Yes, it seems so, from the work of @AaronChalfin and colleagues. See link in bio for more details. Get ahead of the pack: The latest "Ratcliffe random ramblings" always come out first at instagram.com/reducingcrime_/
See the last one 😳 * means a likely career-killer
To count as 'conservative' in academia, typically any *one* of the following suffices: - pro-life* - 'traditional' Xian or Jew; Mormon - more than 3 kids - reject CRT* - anti-affirmative action - gun owner or pro 2A - anti-illegal immigration or pro enforcement* - Republican -…
Morning troops! Here’s a one minute primer on focused deterrence. instagram.com/reel/DMFaIcuOh…
Ahead of this month’s Global Societies of Evidence-Based Policing Conference, Policing Insight’s Keith Potter talked to conference speaker Prof Ben Bradford, Director of UCL’s Centre for Global City Policing, about the findings from recent research into the UK public’s trust and…
What happens when you lay off cops? instagram.com/reel/DL93MBlpP…
Last sentence of our new paper: "Continued use of citywide population rates as a benchmark against which to measure racial bias in police activity would seem naïve at best, and deliberately misleading if deployed by more informed commentators." rdcu.be/evAHc
Stacey Rothwell's podcast episode has been described as 'fantastic' by an expert, and rightly so. Here she lays down the value of dedicated rapid video response officers for domestic violence. Apple: apple.co/45NRBbv Spotify: spoti.fi/4lhGXys
New publication in Police Quarterly: "Forced Science: A Critical Appraisal of the Scientific Rigor of ‘Force Science’ Policing Research." It’s no mistake that evidence-based policing begins with *evidence*. High-quality science improves outcomes for officers, agencies, and…