Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 27/05/2026Join me in a couple of weeks for an online zoom session to learn more about the UPenn Master of Applied Criminology and Police Leadership program. Details: www.linkedin.com/events/74652... 031
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 17/01/2026Police departments struggle to find research partners, in part because academic criminology has actively worked against policing research for some years now. Source: www.jerryratcliffe.net/_files/ugd/f... 031
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 12/12/2025Page 26 of that report (yes, I'm a nerd) has a truly awful graph from a design perspective. I mean, who thought this is good? 310
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 14/09/2025To contextualize this week’s political commentary, of the 2,647 identified extremist violent offenders in the US since 2000, far-right extremists were more than 7 times more represented in the data than far-left extremists. * No, this isn’t to negate the abhorrent shooting this week. 092
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 02/09/2025In the new episode of the @reducingcrime.com podcast, @mattbland.bsky.social - former analyst and now evidence-based policing guru - explains the value he got from socializing with police officers. Apple: apple.co/4g269aC Spotify: bit.ly/4oXiQYc 010
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 30/08/2025Just asked Google how President Trump activated the National Guard. The response was... not optimal. 120
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 28/08/2025Fun chat covering Matt's experiences as an analyst in the National Intelligence Model and where #evidence-based_policing is right now. Tons of great advice for crime analysts working with police departments. 000
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 28/07/2025If you have civilian staff in your police department, you will want to forward this podcast episode to them. Packed with tips on how to survive as a senior civilian leader in policing, from one of the best. 040
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 21/07/2025Alex Murray from the Society of Evidence-Based Policing kicks off the global societies meeting in Cambridge to a packed room. 010
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 30/06/2025This was a fun episode to record. Stacey is smart, insightful about #EBP and fun to hang with, all of which comes across in this episode. Here she talks about the benefits of dedicated RVR officers for domestic violence. Full episode is great fun. Dive in! 000
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 29/06/2025Tomorrow on the @reducingcrime.com a primer on police use and benefits of rapid video response, from Stacey Rothwell. Here she explains that even though we have new ways of calling the police, the response types haven't changed. This fun episode from a pub garden drops tomorrow. 010
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 01/06/20253 sentences epitomize why crime policy is a mess. 1. Violence fluctuates a lot while poverty has remained largely unchanged so this is questionable 2. But not crime scientists who study crime 3. These don't address the root causes in the first two sentences 🤷🙄 abc7chicago.com/post/studies... 010
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 30/05/2025EPISODE ALERT: A new @reducingcrime.com podcast episode (#83) just dropped with David Décary-Hétu, an expert in all things darkweb. It's like a free primer on what's going on in cybercrime, law enforcement interdictions, and the dark web. Apple: apple.co/4kbgJNG Spotify: spoti.fi/43Hv9OH 132
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 27/05/2025This Thursday on the @reducingcrime.com podcast, David Décary-Hétu gives you the lowdown on the #Darkweb: #red_rooms, #hitman_for_hire sites, and surprising tales of law enforcement success. Also why cybercrime has become such a problem. Also, now that I've #-ed those terms, my algorithm is screwed. 010
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 06/05/2025If you are an analyst in policing, then Loren Atherley has some top-notch advice on how to get traction and buy-in with your analytical products. From the @reducingcrime.com podcast, episode #82. Apple: apple.co/4jqD6yg Spotify: spoti.fi/3Yn8wx8 SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/xVARcnK8dtrv... 011
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 04/05/2025Excited to announce I am moving to the University of Pennsylvania's Department of Criminology, to be faculty director of their new Masters in Applied Criminology and Police Leadership. One weekend a month in Philadelphia (8x a year), one summer week, two years: www.lps.upenn.edu/degree-progr... 3323
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 02/05/2025Hayley Wight and I conducted 100s of hours of fieldwork in Kensington with @septa-social.bsky.social police officers. Officers generally supported long-term help, but were more hesitant to support short-term assistance, which many saw as 'enabling' addition. As one officer said: 100
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 29/04/2025Lots here for crime analysts and police leaders. Join me and Loren Atherley, research and data guru with the Seattle PD talking consent decrees, being data curious, evidence-based policing, advanced analytics... and the highly questionable contents of his basement. 031
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 28/04/2025Tomorrow on the @reducingcrime.com podcast, newly minted @cambridgeuni.bsky.social PhD Loren Atherley talks surviving a consent decree, how to establish evidence-based policing, and the role of advanced analytics. And being data curious... Available at all the usual pod places tomorrow morning. 040
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 26/04/2025You can overpower one, but you can’t overpower all. How policing keeps cities safe, from 1873. 141
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 09/04/2025Larry Sherman at the University of Pennsylvania with a talk celebrating the 20th anniversary of the creation of their criminology department. 010
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 08/04/2025Not sure who needs to hear this, but 'Down In the Tube Station at Midnight' remains an absolute classic 46 years later. 230
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 25/03/2025Some lucky Philadelphia defendant gets me on a court case today 👍🏻 030
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 23/03/2025A Sunday morning thought about frontline policing. 161
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 10/03/2025Now's a great time to listen to the latest @reducingcrime.com episode featuring Clifford Stott explaining the outdated myths that police still hold about crowd control. Take a listen - will change how you police. Apple: apple.co/41wPdDA Spotify: spoti.fi/3QXwmvr 030
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 08/03/2025Democrat attempts to defund the police were largely unsuccessful or minimal. But Republicans proposing nearly $3 billion of cuts to policing likely to pass. 072
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 24/02/2025Looking forward to talking this afternoon to the #DC #Police #Leadership #Academy organized by the fantastic Jess Bress! 110
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 14/02/2025Louisiana’s “Surgeon General” may be anti-vaccine but maybe pro-blood-letting? apnews.com/article/loui... 110
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 03/02/2025Musk's DOGE employees, many of whom do not have security clearances, demanded access a SCIF. On a Saturday. But they threatened and put on admin leave the two people who actually stood up for information security? WTF is happening? 153
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 31/01/2025On the @reducingcrime.com podcast's latest episode, Kassy Alia Ray makes a nice point about community policing striving to establish a culture that seeks authentic relationships. Apple: apple.co/40yePOx Spotify: spoti.fi/4hA2Vui SoundCloud: on.soundcloud.com/VTNv1o91FcJi... 011
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 29/01/2025You can plan ahead to mitigate the effects when an officer is murdered on duty. You can also manage the aftermath. Lots of sane advice from someone who has been there on the podcast this month. 000
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 29/01/2025If we are reinterpreting what the founding fathers did 240 years ago, can we also do guns? 917428
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 22/01/2025Guess what: When you start having a functional police, crime appears to go up. Great quote from 1841. List, AJ (1841) A Practical Treatise on Rural Police. Edinburgh: Fraser and Crawford. 0151
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 20/01/2025Fellow policing professors take note of a couple here. With a massive ht to @stevestuwill.bsky.social, I found the 2024 results from over 2,000 students. Quite speech-restrictive. 010
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 18/01/2025Opening scene of #SeveranceSeason2 is like trying to navigate around the Hoover building (FBI Headquarters). 000
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 15/01/2025Morning coffee with my old pal Patrick Walsh and colleagues. 020
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 10/01/2025This is how you pull up to the gas station like a boss 😉😎 Have a lovely weekend everyone. 100
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 04/01/2025Your next podcast listen asks... Is there a guardian angel voice in you? Adrian Raine is the GOAT of biological factors underlying antisocial and violent behavior. This @reducingcrime.com episode has challenges and dilemmas for crime reduction policy. And he's a very likeable guy. (Links in 2/2) 230
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 22/12/2024Tomorrow on the @reducingcrime.com podcast, the great Adrian Raine on the psychopathy of murderers, including this fascinating dilemma... 280
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 20/12/2024Next Monday on the @reducingcrime.com podcast, I chat to Adrian Raine, the preeminent expert on the neurobiology of antisocial behavior. We cover how many there are (quite a lot!), what it means to be a psychopath, and why they (we?) are how they are. Coming Monday wherever you get your podcasts. 010
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 19/12/2024Annual obligatory academic accomplishments post… 1140
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 03/12/2024Quick afternoon of fieldwork with one of my favorite humans, #NIJ LEADS scholar and #Philadelphia_Police Captain Kelly Robbins. 060
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 30/11/2024#ReducingCrime podcast episodes are announced on #BlueSky. The monthly podcast highlights influential thinkers in the police service, and leading crime and policing researchers. Here's Dr. Thaddeus Johnson, former police officer, with a story detailing priority problems in his old department. 291
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 25/11/2024The #ReducingCrime podcast is now in the top 2% of most popular worldwide podcasts, according to Listen Notes global podcast database. Thanks for listening you guys! podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/r... 1150
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 22/11/2024We therefore suggested that this breached what we called the Hamsterdam principle. (Thanks David Simon!) 110
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 22/11/2024The property crime increase is a whopping 167 percent increase (at the 1000 foot distance). The SCS had inadvertently opened within a block of two or a really attractive shoplifting target (pun coincidental). 110
Jerry Ratcliffe @jerryratcliffe.net · 22/11/2024What was happening? About 850 feet from the SCS, there was a Target store that had been open for some months prior to the SCS operation. The link between property crime and the effects of drug addiction is pretty well known. 100