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.
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#98 (Rafael Mangual) (opens the original)
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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.
#97 (Mike Scott) (opens the original)
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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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