About this episode
Jerry Ratcliffe interviews Jesse Huff about her research on police effectiveness and evidence-based reform.
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 that successful police–research partnerships depend on feasible study designs, clear communication, timely findings, and mutual understanding between practitioners and researchers. The conversation examines challenges in policing research, including organizational resistance, the complexity of implementing randomized trials, and the importance of process evaluations and logic models. Huff also describes her work evaluating crime gun intelligence centers and NIBIN…
People in this episode
Host: Jerry Ratcliffe
Guest: Jesse Huff
Topics covered
- police effectiveness
- evidence-based reform
- body-worn cameras
- policing research
- crime gun intelligence
- community relations
Keywords
- police research
- body-worn cameras
- randomized controlled trial
- crime reduction
- police partnerships
- ballistic evidence
- arrest patterns
Mentioned in this episode
Organizations: University of Cincinnati, University of Nevada, Reno, Arizona State University, Phoenix Police Department, NIBIN
Places: Phoenix, Brazil
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