Jerry Ratcliffe
@Jerry_Ratcliffe
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UPenn prof of police leadership, ex-🇬🇧 cop, host @_ReducingCrime podcast. ✍️“Evidence-Based Policing: The Basics” 🇺🇸 via 🏴🏴🇦🇺
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Joined September 2012
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evidencebasedpolicing.net
Home of "Evidence-Based Policing: The Basics" by Jerry Ratcliffe, an introductory book on evidence-based policing for police officers and students. Contains additional material, glossary, videos and...
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And here's the absolute kicker.... The 24/7 phone number to call in New York is out of service. Well played @SpringerNature. Customer service 0/10.
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Third article? Crickets. No contact after initial submission. It's as if they work on one article at a time, and don't proceed until each one is etched in stone. And for this exemplary service? I'm paying $3,090.... per article.
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Second article.... waited.... waited.... Finally, received an invoice. Had some trouble, but got it paid. It is still paywalled.
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I submit the online request for all three articles in mid August. One article seemed to go well enough. License signed, invoice received, and paid well over a month ago. It is still paywalled.
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Want to hear a tale about the mess that is @SpringerNature? I got some support to help with the cost of making three articles of mine #open_access. No big deal right? Except @SpringerNature seems to farm all of this work to the andromeda galaxy. So...
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Philly Goat Project received an anti-gun violence grant from the city of Philadelphia. I'm sure it isn't a lot of money, and goats are cool, but I'm honestly struggling to figure out the causal mechanism here. Fund them? Sure. Maybe just not from an anti-gun violence budget.
As gun violence statistics in Philadelphia dip to pre-pandemic lows, city leaders are pleased with the decrease, but they know they didn't do it alone.
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A good news story about police training. Get these random ramblings first over at Insta..
Additional specialized training for detectives generated better outcomes and clearance rates. Evaluations of training are rarely undertaken with this sort of focus on important outcomes like solved cases and arrest rates. So, this is an important study. Details at link in bio.
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Featuring a little of my chat with @MartinKaste on the crime reduction implications of the deployment of National Guard in Washington DC. https://t.co/75CLihyNVl
npr.org
As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?
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Featuring a little of my chat with @MartinKaste on the crime reduction implications of the deployment of National Guard in Washington DC. https://t.co/75CLihyNVl
npr.org
As President Trump ramps up efforts to send federal officers and troops into cities, criminologists are watching closely. Are the feds doing this in a smart way?
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Dr. Jeremy Wilson was a guest on the latest episode of @_ReducingCrime, hosted by @Jerry_Ratcliffe. In this episode, they discuss strategies and solutions to police recruitment and retention. Listen below! https://t.co/AiXMz0d4EM
#AdvanceJustice #MSUSocialScience
reducingcrime.com
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A while back @CampbellReviews redesigned their website, and I hate to say it, but its not good. Reviews are now under 'Our work', but when you click a subgroup (like crime and justice), you move away from reviews. If you need the crime/policing ones: https://t.co/tMrSJFrCFe
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A lot of commentators should know better. As we conclude: "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."
Racial disparities in police activity can appear worse than in reality. Inappropriate (or naive) denominators don't reflect the real distribution of police and the work they do. But when alternatives are used, racial disparity measures reduce significantly, or even disappear.
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Except it was a videographer from the US delegation that stopped the escalator, and the US team control the teleprompter. But other than that, Mrs Fox News, how was the show?
‘REAL DISGRACE’: President Trump erupted at the United Nations after a string of mishaps—a near fall on an escalator, a teleprompter crash, and audio issues during his address. “This was triple sabotage at the UN. They ought to be ashamed of themselves." The UN
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Episode #86 with Matt Bland is full of these great nuggets. Well worth a listen on your drive home. Apple: https://t.co/EFclrlv4lB Spotify: https://t.co/Ap71eMgfRs SoundCloud: https://t.co/RYPvBChBuq
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Reducing poverty is good, but it is not a violence reduction strategy. (Though it can reduce property crime.)
Sociologists often stress that reducing unemployment and poverty are the only ways to reduce crime, but a recent review of the literature from researchers at the University of Chicago suggests some caution. #reducingcrime #criminology #crimereduction #research #crimescience
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As the @_ReducingCrime podcast approaches 300,000 plays, the listenership is from around the world. Next episode drops in about a week.
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In a study of ~2.5M children, there was a small association between in utero Tylenol use and subsequent autism. But the association disappears entirely when you introduce sibling controls, implying it’s spurious.
Trump to advise pregnant women to limit Tylenol use to stem autism risk
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Pleasantly surprised to be ranked #76th most cited criminologist in the list of the world’s top 100,000 scientists by citations... if only because I don't think of myself as a criminologist, more of a policing/crime researcher. But I'll take it.
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