Pinpoint By Mark43

There were 114 officer suicides this year. Which is a horrible, tragic number, but not--and this is important--statistically worse than average for the general population. See, without context, data doesn’t mean anything. On a recent episode of Pinpoint, I got to interview Jerry Ratcliffe, a professor with the Department of Criminal Justice at Temple University, about a slew of things in predictive policing from a data-driven, academic perspective. “You only really understand what a number means when you compare that number to something else,” Professor Ratcliffe said.