EP8 C@F: I chat with Dr Geoffrey Barnes, the Director of Criminology for Western Australia Police (WAPols). We talk about Geoff's path to WAPol; Cambridge criminology and policing; global policing; WAPol and criminology; randomised control trials (RCTs) and hot-spots policing; artificial intelligence and machine learning; predicting crime and race; police recruitment; RCTs in medicine; police education; advice for police recruits; advice for criminologists.

Dr Geoffrey Barnes, the Director of Criminology for Western Australia Police 
https://au.linkedin.com/in/geoffrey-barnes-05234055 
http://www.crim.cam.ac.uk/people/academic_research/geoffrey_barnes/

K-Mart; "Ship My Pants."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8enIDEKrzA

Song: Virtual Self - Ghost Voices 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPc8QMycGno

Cosmic Apes is a podcast hosted by Michael K Bryden* of the University of Cambridge. It explores philosophy, existentialism, morality, wellbeing, and science. The purpose is to promote empiricism and sentient flourishing, and to connect people from different fields, universities, institutions, and countries. 

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*I'm a PhD Candidate at the University of Cambridge. My research examines police self-legitimacy; that is, the way that police officers morally justify their authority to themselves and their audience (the public).

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