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.

Reducing Crime is a society podcast hosted by Jerry Ratcliffe, with 98 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80.

Jerry Ratcliffe hosts Reducing Crime, a society show with 98 episodes published.

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  #99 (Rachel Tobler)

  Sep 29, 202634 min

  Rachel Tobler is the Redlands police chief and has served with the department for 28 years. She is also a former National Institute of Justice LEADS scholar, having been an early participant in their Law Enforcement Advancing Data and Science Program, as well as a Policing Fellow with the National Policing Institute. Her contributions to policing outside of Redlands include being a member of the Research Advisory Committee for the IACP, sitting on the steering committee for 30 by 30, and she is a founding board member and current Emeritus Board member for the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing. As a result of her contributions, she was awarded the Gary P. Hayes Award from the Police Executive Research Forum in 2025. One of the founding members of the American Society of Evidence-Based Policing, she talks to Jerry Ratcliffe about the growth of evidence-based policing from a chief's perspective, and why new police leaders should get on board the EBP train.

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  #98 (Rafael Mangual)

  Aug 28, 202640 min

  Rafael Mangual is the Nick Ohnell Fellow at the Manhattan Institute, a contributing editor of City Journal, and author of Criminal (In)Justice. He talks with Jerry Ratcliffe about intellectual diversity in criminology, the limits of progressive criminal justice reform, New York’s crime decline, public order, mental health, and why he believes policing and social control remain essential.

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  #97 (Mike Scott)

  Jul 30, 202636 min

  Professor Mike Scott is a former police chief and director of the Center for Problem-Oriented Policing at Arizona State University, and is a foundational name in the history of problem-oriented policing around the world. He chats with host, Jerry Ratcliffe, about that history, and the challenges of getting problem-oriented work established in police departments.

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  #96 (Shane Johnson)

  Jun 25, 202639 min

  Shane Johnson is the Dawes Professor of Future Crime at University College London. In this episode, he argues that emerging technologies—AI, internet-connected devices, autonomous vehicles, and future computing systems—are creating new crime opportunities by reducing offenders’ effort, increasing potential rewards, and exposing people through data collection, spoofing, deepfakes, and cybersecurity vulnerabilities.est work with police departments.

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  #95 (Jessie Huff)

  May 28, 202639 minS0

  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. Huff discusses a randomized controlled trial of body-worn cameras in the Phoenix Police Department conducted after Ferguson. The study found cameras altered some policing behaviors but did not reduce use of force, while arrest patterns shifted differently across Black and Hispanic neighborhoods. She argues...

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