Reducing Crime
Episodes
#93 (Mike Pooley)
26 Mar 2026
Contributed by Lukas
Mike Pooley is the first Native American to lead a municipal police department in Arizona and currently serves as the Apache Junction Police Departmen...
#92 (Rich Johnston)
26 Feb 2026
Contributed by Lukas
This episode features a conversation between host Jerry Ratcliffe and Police Chief Rich Johnston of the Barrie Police Service in Canada. Chief Johnsto...
#91 (Peter Moskos)
29 Jan 2026
Contributed by Lukas
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 ...
#90 (Obed Magny)
26 Dec 2025
Contributed by Lukas
The episode features a conversation with Dr. Obed Magny, a former Sacramento police officer and co-founder of the American Society of Evidence-Based P...
#89 (Chuck Tyree)
26 Nov 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Chuck Tyree has served with New York State’s Division of Criminal Justice Service for over a decade and currently supervises programs in their Offic...
#88 (Ben Bradford)
30 Oct 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
#87 (Jeremy Wilson)
30 Sep 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jeremy Wilson is a Professor in the School of Criminal Justice and the Founding Director of the Police Staffing Observatory at Michigan State Universi...
#86 (Matt Bland)
28 Aug 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Matt Bland is the Chief Operating Officer of the Society of Evidence-Based Policing, and an associate professor with the Police Executive Programme at...
#85 (Nola Joyce)
28 Jul 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Nola Joyce is a highly accomplished civilian policing professional who has served in leadership roles with the police departments of Chicago, Washingt...
#84 (Stacey Rothwell)
30 Jun 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Stacey Rothwell is the director of innovation action across seven police forces leading ERIN, the Eastern Region Innovation Network in the UK. After a...
#83 (David Décary-Hétu)
29 May 2025
Contributed by Lukas
David Décary-Hétu is a professor at the University of Montreal and chair of the Darknet and Anonymity Research Centre. Décary-Hétu's research focu...
#82 (Loren Atherley)
28 Apr 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Loren Atherley is the Senior Director of Performance Analytics & Research and the Senior Research Scientist for the Seattle Police Department. He emph...
#81 (Gina Hawkins)
24 Mar 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Gina Hawkins, experienced police leader, former chief, and President of the National Association of Women Law Enforcement Executives, discusses the im...
#80 (Cliff Stott)
24 Feb 2025
Contributed by Lukas
Jerry Ratcliffe talks to Professor Cliff Stott, a distinguished social psychologist specializing in crowd behavior, group identity, and public order p...
#79 (Kassy Alia Ray)
29 Jan 2025
Contributed by Lukas
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...
#78 (Adrian Raine)
23 Dec 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Adrian Raine is the Richard Perry University Professor of Criminology, Psychiatry, and Psychology at the University of Pennsylvania. Raine's pioneerin...
#77 (Jason Potts)
21 Nov 2024
Contributed by Lukas
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 dis...
#76 (Thaddeus Johnson)
26 Oct 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Thaddeus Johnson is a former police officer from Memphis who is now an Assistant Professor of Criminal Justice and Criminology at Georgia State Univer...
#75 (Ian Adams)
30 Sep 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Ian Adams talks about his career in policing, his transition to academia, and his recent policy research paper titled "Fuck: The Police." They dis...
#74 (Grant Edwards)
29 Aug 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Grant Edwards APM, a retired commander from the Australian Federal Police, shares his experiences and struggles with post-traumatic stress disorder (P...
#73 (Cynthia Lum)
30 Jul 2024
Contributed by Lukas
A former police officer and detective, Dr. Cynthia Lum is Distinguished University Professor of Criminology, Law and Society at George Mason Universit...
#72 (John Mina)
26 Jun 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode, John Mina, the Sheriff of Orange County, Florida, discusses his background in law enforcement, including his time as Chief of Police ...
#71 (Peter Neyroud)
28 May 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Peter Neyroud, former Chief Constable of Thames Valley Police and director of the Police Executive Programme at Cambridge University, discusses hi...
#70 (Keith Humphreys)
30 Apr 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Jerry Ratcliffe chats with Keith Humphreys, an influential figure in drug policy and a professor at Stanford University. They discuss the dangers of s...
#69 (Alex Piquero)
26 Mar 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Alex Piquero, a professor in the Department of Sociology and Criminology at the University of Miami, discusses his career in criminology, including...
#68 (Jim Rose)
28 Feb 2024
Contributed by Lukas
Did you see the movie BlacKkKlansman? If so you will love this episode. Host Jerry Ratcliffe chats with his mate Jim Rose, a former narcotics officer ...
#67 (Beatriz Magaloni)
29 Jan 2024
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Reducing Crime podcast, host Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Beatriz Magaloni, a professor of international relations and political ...
#66 (David Weisburd)
27 Dec 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Reducing Crime, host Jerry Ratcliffe interviews criminologist David Weisburd. They discuss Weisburd's career, his work on hotspots ...
#65 (Martin Bouchard)
28 Nov 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Reducing Crime podcast, host Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Martin Bouchard, a professor of criminology at Simon Fraser University,...
#64 (Dave Cowan)
30 Oct 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Reducing Crime Podcast, host Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Detective Superintendent Dave Cowan of Australia's Victoria Police. The...
#63 (Seth Williams)
27 Sep 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of Reducing Crime, host Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Seth Williams, the former Philadelphia District Attorney who was convicted and inca...
#62 (Ron Clarke)
30 Aug 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of "Reducing Crime," host Jerry Ratcliffe sits down with criminology legend Ron Clarke to discuss his career and contributions to the ...
#61 (Terry Cherry)
28 Jul 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the ReducingCrime Podcast, host Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Terry Cherry, a recruiting officer with the Charleston South Carolina Po...
#60 (Andrew Lemieux)
29 Jun 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Andrew Lemieux manages the Problem-Oriented Wildlife Protection program for LEAD Ranger – an organization that supports wildlife park rangers around...
#59 (Mark Evans)
30 May 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Mark Evans, OBE is the Executive Lead for Future Policing with the New Zealand Police (NZP), and Vice President of the Australia and New Zealand Socie...
#58 (Steve James)
26 Apr 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Steve James is now an assistant professor in the Department of Translational Medicine and Physiology at Washington State University, having previo...
#57 (Ken Pease)
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Ken Pease, OBE is a British crime prevention legend, and the pioneer who directed the Kirkholt repeat burglary prevention project. He is currently a v...
#56 (Vera Bumpers)
27 Feb 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Vera Bumpers is the police chief for the Houston Metro Transit Authority Police Department. She has served as the president of the National Organizati...
#55 (Scott Payne)
26 Jan 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Payne served in law enforcement for 28 years, primarily with the FBI in a long-term undercover capacity. We discuss his role infiltrating outlaw...
#54 (Jeff Asher)
17 Dec 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jeff Asher is a nationally recognized crime data analyst and co-founder of the data analytics firm AH Datalytics. Jeff spent years as a crime analyst ...
#53 (Art Acevedo)
29 Nov 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Art Acevedo is the interim police chief in Aurora, Colorado, and has been a chief with the California Highway Patrol, in Austin, Texas, Houston, Texas...
#52 (Stijn Ruiter)
27 Oct 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Stijn Ruiter is a Dutch sociologist who specializes in environmental criminology and why crime happens where it does. Since 2009, he has worked at the...
#51 (Bill Brooks)
27 Sep 2022
Contributed by Lukas
A cop for over 45 years, Bill Brooks is the chief of the Norwood, Massachusetts police department. He is also an award-winning expert on eyewitness id...
#50 (Gloria Laycock)
29 Aug 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Gloria Laycock headed the Home Office Police Research Group and was founding Director of University College London’s Jill Dando Institute of Securit...
#49 (Kristen Ziman)
26 Jul 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Police chief (retd.) Kristen Ziman joined policing as a 17-year old cadet. She spent her 30-year career with the Aurora Illinois police department ...
#48 (Shon Barnes)
27 Jun 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Shon Barnes is the police chief in Madison, Wisconsin. A new documentary (the 54th mile policing project) follows Chief Barnes and two other black pol...
#47 (Jackie Sebire)
26 May 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Jackie Sebire retired this month as Assistant Chief Constable of Bedfordshire Police in the UK. We discuss Dr Sebire's work as a director on the UK Co...
#46 (Wes Skogan)
26 Apr 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Wes Skogan is emeritus professor at Northwestern University and a leading authority on community policing. He sits down with host Jerry Ratcliffe to d...
#45 (Scott Charles)
26 Mar 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Scott Charles is the Trauma Outreach Manager for Temple University Hospital, director of the Cradle to Grave program, and coordinator of the hospital’...
#44 (Jason Roach)
24 Feb 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Jason Roach is a chartered psychologist, Professor of Psychology and Policing, and Director of the University of Huddersfield's Secure Societies R...
#43 (Walter Katz)
26 Jan 2022
Contributed by Lukas
Walter Katz is the Vice President of Criminal Justice for Arnold Ventures. Walter received his law degree from the McGeorge School of Law at the Unive...
#42 (Justin Nix)
28 Dec 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Justin Nix is a distinguished associate professor of Criminology and Criminal Justice at the University of Nebraska Omaha, and this year's Outstan...
#41 (Charles Ramsey)
29 Nov 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Charles Ramsey is one of the most revered leaders in American policing. He joined the Chicago Police Department as a cadet in 1968 and rose to lead bo...
#40 (Don Weatherburn)
26 Oct 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Don Weatherburn is now a Professor at Australia's National Drug and Alcohol Research Centre, but for most of his career ran the New South Wales Bureau...
#39 (Natalie Hiltz)
28 Sep 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Natalie Hiltz is an inspector with Peel Regional Police Service in Ontario Canada and an advocate for evidence-based policing across the country. Insp...
#38 (Ian Stanier)
30 Aug 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Dr Ian Stanier was the head of the human intelligence unit at the UK’s National Counter-Terrorism Policing Headquarters. He is now an academic invol...
#37 (Bill Bratton)
27 Jul 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Bratton has been chief of the Los Angeles Police Department, chief of the New York City Transit Police, commissioner of the Boston Police Departm...
#36 (Katy Barrow-Grint)
28 Jun 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Katy Barrow-Grint is a Superintendent with the UK's Thames Valley Police. She is currently the Head of Specialist Operations for Thames Valley, runnin...
#35 (Carmen Best)
24 May 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Carmen Best served with the Seattle police department for 28 years, rising through the ranks to take over as chief in August 2018. She led the departm...
#34 (Ed Maguire)
27 Apr 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Ed Maguire is a professor of criminology and criminal justice at Arizona State University, where he also serves as director of the Public Safety Innov...
#33 (Tanya Meisenholder)
30 Mar 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Tanya Meisenholder is the Deputy Commissioner of Equity and Inclusion for the New York City Police Department (NYPD). We talk about hiring and retaini...
#32 (Jennifer Wood)
26 Feb 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Jennifer Wood is a Professor of Criminal Justice at Temple University, and a criminologist with expertise in policing, regulation and public health. ...
#31 (Alex Murray)
26 Jan 2021
Contributed by Lukas
Commander Alex Murray is the London Metropolitan Police lead for trafficking, online child abuse, the flying squad, cyber crime, and major crime. He i...
#30 (Rod Brunson)
28 Dec 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rod Brunson is the Thomas P. O’Neill Professor of Public Life at Northeastern University. We discuss his op-ed in the Washington Post that, at the h...
#29 (Bill Walsh)
23 Nov 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Bill Walsh is a lieutenant with the Voorhees police department in New Jersey. We chat about his work as their Health and Wellness Coordinator integrat...
#28 (Debra Piehl)
27 Oct 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Debra Piehl has been an innovator and leader in the development of crime analysis for over 20 years. We chat about the value of crime analysis to poli...
#27 (Rachel Tuffin)
29 Sep 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Rachel Tuffin in the Director of Knowledge and Innovation at the College of Policing for England and Wales. We discuss the unique national role that t...
#26 (Hans Menos)
24 Aug 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Hans Menos leads Philadelphia's Police Advisory Commission, the civilian oversight agency for the Philadelphia Police Department. They provide recomme...
#25 (Danny Murphy)
28 Jul 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Danny Murphy is the Deputy Commissioner over the Compliance Bureau at the Baltimore Police Department in Maryland, where he leads the implementation o...
#24 (Kevin Bethel)
18 Jun 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Kevin Bethel is a retired Philadelphia Deputy Police Commissioner and now Chief of School Safety for the Philadelphia School District. We chat about t...
#23 (Mo McGough)
26 May 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Mo McGough, Chief of Staff at The Policing Project at NYU Law, about the role, representation, and experiences of women in ...
#22 (Robert Schug)
29 Apr 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Dr. Robert Schug, a neuro criminologist and clinical psychologist, about the real science behind serial killer research. Th...
#21 (Phil Goff)
24 Mar 2020
Contributed by Lukas
Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Philip Atiba Goff, an expert in racial bias and discrimination. They discuss the concept of implicit bias and its impact on...
#20 (Chris Magnus)
25 Feb 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Reducing Crime podcast, host Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Chris Magnus, the police chief for Tucson, Arizona. Magnus discusses th...
#19 (Lorraine Mazerolle)
21 Jan 2020
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Reducing Crime podcast, host Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Lorraine Mazerolle, a professor of criminology at the University of Que...
#18 (Thomas Abt)
16 Dec 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Reducing Crime podcast, host Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Thomas Abt, a senior research fellow at the Harvard Kennedy School of G...
#17 (Lawrence Sherman)
18 Nov 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Reducing Crime podcast, host Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Professor Lawrence Sherman, director of the Cambridge Centre for Eviden...
#16 (Marcus Felson)
23 Oct 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Reducing Crime podcast, host Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Marcus Felson, a professor of Criminal Justice at Texas State Universit...
#15 (Ella Cockbain)
23 Sep 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Reducing Crime podcast, host Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Dr. Ella Cockbain, an Associate Professor in the Department of Security...
#14 (Denis O'Connor)
29 Aug 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Sir Denis O'Connor has been in British policing for over 50 years and a leader for nearly two decades. Across a variety of roles, he has been at the c...
#13 (Renee Mitchell)
24 Jul 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Dr. Renee Mitchell is a sergeant in the Sacramento police department, California, and a co-founder and current president of the American Society of Ev...
#12 (Ian Hesketh)
25 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Reducing Crime podcast, host Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Dr. Ian Hesketh, the Wellbeing Lead at the UK College of Policing and t...
#11 (Rob Briner)
12 Jun 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Rob Briner is Professor of Organizational Psychology in the School of Business and Management at Queen Mary University of London. He tells me about th...
#10 (Geoff Barnes)
08 May 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Geoff Barnes, the director of criminology for the Western Australia police force. They discuss the importance of evidence-b...
#09 (Charis Kubrin)
17 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Charis Kubrin, a professor at the University of California, Irvine, about her research on California Proposition 47. Propos...
#08 (John Eck)
01 Apr 2019
Contributed by Lukas
John Eck is a professor at the University of Cincinnati and the originator of the SARA model of problem-oriented policing. We discuss his work around ...
#07 (Geoff Alpert)
12 Mar 2019
Contributed by Lukas
I catch up with Geoff Alpert, professor of criminal justice at the University of South Carolina, and a stalwart of the policing research field for ove...
#06 (Wendy Stiver)
04 Feb 2019
Contributed by Lukas
In this episode of the Reducing Crime podcast, host Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Major Wendy Stiver, a commander in the Dayton Ohio Police Department an...
#05 (Tamara Herold)
07 Jan 2019
Contributed by Lukas
Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Tamara Herold, a researcher who worked on the award-winning PIVOT Project. The PIVOT Project, which stands for Place-Based ...
#04 (Kim Rossmo)
19 Nov 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this podcast episode, Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Kim Rossmo, a former detective and current professor in the School of Criminal Justice at Texas St...
#03 (Jakob Lindergaard-Bentzen)
30 Oct 2018
Contributed by Lukas
I discuss with Jakob Lindergaard-Bentzen (program manager with the Danish National Police) the challenges of promoting and supporting ILP, the complex...
#02 (Mike Newman)
07 Aug 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In this second episode of Reducing Crime, I talk with Detective Inspector Mike Newman of the Queensland Police Service in Australia. We chat about the...
#01 (Tom Nestel)
16 Jul 2018
Contributed by Lukas
In the pilot episode of the Reducing Crime podcast, host Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Police Chief Tom Nestel about ongoing education in policing, innov...