Reducing Crime
A monthly podcast featuring conversations with influential thinkers in the police service and leading crime and policing researchers working to advance public safety. Often amusing, often enlightening, always informative. Jerry Ratcliffe (professor and former police officer) chats to a range of international guests covering police, policing, crime science, criminology, criminal justice, and public safety policy. Details and transcripts at reducingcrime.com/podcast.
Episodes
May 28, 2026 • 38 mins
Jerry Ratcliffe speaks with University of Cincinnati policing scholar Jesse Huff about her research on police effectiveness, fairness, and evidence-based reform. Huff recounts her path from aspiring military police officer to academic researcher, shaped by graduate work at the University of Nevada, Reno and Arizona State University, where partnerships with police agencies informed her practice-oriented approach.
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April 29, 2026 • 31 mins
Host Jerry Ratcliffe and Bohdan Denysenko discussing Ukraine’s policing during wartime. Bogdan Denysenko is a former Ukrainian police officer and now civilian security sector reform and organised crime expert with over 20 years of experience in Ukrainian law enforcement and international advisory work, supporting the Government and Parliament of Ukraine through the European Union Advisory Mission in Ukraine, based in Kyiv.
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March 26, 2026 • 39 mins
Mike Pooley is the first Native American to lead a municipal police department in Arizona and currently serves as the Apache Junction Police Department's chief. He chats with Jerry Ratcliffe about his upbringing on the Navajo Nation Reservation, his transition to the Phoenix area for better educational opportunities, and his journey into law enforcement, where he spent over 20 years with the Tempe Police Department before becoming...
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February 26, 2026 • 30 mins
This episode features a conversation between host Jerry Ratcliffe and Police Chief Rich Johnston of the Barrie Police Service in Canada. Chief Johnston, a proponent of evidence-based policing, discusses how this approach has influenced his career and the importance of future police chiefs adopting it. Johnston, who has been a police officer since 1997, has served in various roles within the Barrie Police Service and is recognized f...
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January 29, 2026 • 39 mins
Peter Moskos is a Professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York City, a former Baltimore City Police Officer, and current director of John Jay College’s NYPD Executive Master’s Leadership Program. He talks to host Jerry Ratcliffe about Compstat, Bratton and colleagues, the crime drop in 1990s New York City, his new book “Back From The Brink”, and the current state of policing research.
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December 26, 2025 • 36 mins
The episode features a conversation with Dr. Obed Magny, a former Sacramento police officer and co-founder of the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing. He discusses emotional intelligence and its importance in policing, including how it can help officers de-escalate tense situations by reading the room and managing their own emotions. Magny shares how he would use emotional intelligence tactics like distracting arguing parti...
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November 26, 2025 • 35 mins
Chuck Tyree has served with New York State’s Division of Criminal Justice Service for over a decade and currently supervises programs in their Office of Public Safety. He oversees the Gun-Involved Violence Elimination (GIVE) initiative, as well as manages grant-funded programs, coordinates statewide technical assistance, and facilitates research into evidence-based policing strategies. In this wide-ranging chat with Jerry Ratcliffe...
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October 30, 2025 • 33 mins
Ben Bradford is Professor of Global City Policing at University College London, where he is Director of the Centre for Global City Policing. He chats to Jerry Ratcliffe about police legitimacy, his research on what people want from the police, and what law enforcement leaders need to know about improving trust in policing.
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September 30, 2025 • 31 mins
Jeremy Wilson is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice and the Founding Director of the Police Staffing Observatory at Michigan State University. Before that, he was a Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation. His chat with host Jerry Ratcliffe covers police recruitment, what is wrong with so many operational allocation models, and how the world of police staffing is changing.
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August 28, 2025 • 36 mins
Matt Bland is the Chief Operating Officer of the Society of Evidence-Based Policing, and an associate professor with the Police Executive Programme at the University of Cambridge. Prior to that, Dr. Bland spent a decade and a half with Norfolk and Suffolk Constabularies, in a range of intelligence and crime analyst roles. We talk about his background as police analyst, the state of EBP, and how many divorces are required to be a se...
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July 28, 2025 • 35 mins
Nola Joyce is a highly accomplished civilian policing professional who has served in leadership roles with the police departments of Chicago, Washington D.C., and Philadelphia where she held the rank of Deputy Commissioner. She is now a Partner and Principal Consultant for 21CP Solutions. In Chicago she helped implement the famous CAPS community policing program, and then in Philadelphia, she was instrumental in designing and evalu...
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June 30, 2025 • 36 mins
Stacey Rothwell is the director of innovation action across seven police forces leading ERIN, the Eastern Region Innovation Network in the UK. After a career as a sworn officer, including as a detective in financial investigation, she returned in a civilian role, pioneering the innovative use of rapid video response in domestic violence cases. She chatted to Jerry Ratcliffe at the Somers Town Coffee House to discuss her career and ...
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May 29, 2025 • 38 mins
David Décary-Hétu is a professor at the University of Montreal and chair of the Darknet and Anonymity Research Centre. Décary-Hétu's research focuses on studying data from offenders who use anonymity technologies like the dark web, cryptocurrencies, and encryption. He reveals that the dark web was originally developed by the military to enable anonymous communication, and that while the dark web and other anonymity technologies pos...
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April 27, 2025 • 35 mins
Loren Atherley is the Senior Director of Performance Analytics & Research and the Senior Research Scientist for the Seattle Police Department. He emphasizes the importance of taking an incremental, gradual approach to implementing evidence-based policing. He focuses on building data curiosity and buy-in within the department by providing useful analytical products and dashboards. He advocates for hiring "pracademics" - academics wi...
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March 23, 2025 • 36 mins
Gina Hawkins, experienced police leader, former chief, and President of the National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives, discusses the importance of support networks and mentorship for women in policing, especially at the executive level. She emphasizes the ‘sorority-like’ connections among women leaders that provide crucial emotional and professional support. She talks about the personal sacrifices that come with taki...
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February 23, 2025 • 36 mins
Jerry Ratcliffe talks to Professor Cliff Stott, a distinguished social psychologist specializing in crowd behavior, group identity, and public order policing. Stott discusses his background and early life experiences, and how this led him to study crowd psychology and develop the Elaborated Social Identity Model as an alternative to outdated mob psychology theories. Stott's work aims to debunk the myth that crowds inherently lose c...
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January 29, 2025 • 38 mins
A line-of-duty death is the ultimate tragedy for a police department. Nobody likes to tempt fate, but planning ahead can make a significant difference should a catastrophe occur. After her police officer husband Greg was killed in the line of duty, Kassy Alia Ray founded the non-profit organization Serve & Connect and in this episode discusses how it fosters positive change through sustainable police-community partnerships. She als...
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December 22, 2024 • 40 mins
Adrian Raine is the Richard Perry University Professor of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Raine's pioneering work has used brain imaging and psychophysiological techniques to study the biological factors underlying antisocial and violent behavior, including in violent offenders and psychopaths. We have a fun and accessible chat about everything from psychopaths to the nature or nurture deb...
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November 20, 2024 • 35 mins
Jason Potts is the chief of the Las Vegas Department of Public Safety, and the president of the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing. Potts discusses the challenges of implementing evidence-based policing practices as a police leader, including getting buy-in from frontline officers, middle managers, and elected officials. In this chat, he emphasizes the importance of developing a culture that embraces ambiguity, risk, and f...
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October 25, 2024 • 39 mins
Thaddeus Johnson is a former police officer from Memphis who is now an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State University. He has extensively researched issues related to policing, crime, and racial disparities. Johnson discussed his experiences as a Black police officer and the challenges of navigating his racial identity in that role. He also highlighted the broader systemic racism and inequities ...
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