Topic

Hotspot policing

Concentrating resources where harm clusters.

Jerry Ratcliffe and the Case for Intelligence-Led Policing

A London beat officer turned Philadelphia professor, Jerry Ratcliffe spent a career arguing that policing should aim its scarce resources at the few places, times and people that produce most of the harm — and then test whether it worked. A profile of the criminologist behind intelligence-led policing and the Reducing Crime podcast.

7 June 2026 Read article →

Evidence & Practice

The Neighbourhood Policing Guarantee: Confidence or Crime?

The Guarantee borrows the language of evidence — data-guided presence, hotspot patrolling. But it folds together two different jobs. A named officer per ward builds confidence. Hotspot patrolling cuts crime. The evidence for each is strong and specific, and the design honours it in some places and departs from it in others.

6 June 2026 Read article →

Evidence & Practice

Boosting Public Confidence Through Neighbourhood Policing

Delivered well, neighbourhood policing produces “quick, large and sustained” gains in public confidence. The evidence behind that claim, weighed.

18 February 2025 Read article →