New Book - Tactical Crime Analysis: Research and Investigation

"Tactical Crime Analysis: Research and Investigation provides a comprehensive discussion on both the theoretical and practical aspects of crime series analysis, making it a critical resource for those engaged in crime prevention and investigation." This new book is by respected experts in the field - Derek J. Paulsen, Sean Bair, and Dan Helms. It is a significant addition to the growing literature that increasingly legitimizes crime and intelligence analysis in policing.

Prolific offender caught

Prolific offender caught is an article highlighting a success story involving a crime analyst identifying prolific offenders who break into vehicles. Nice work!

Retired Officers Raise Questions on Crime Data

Retired Officers Raise Questions on Crime Data

The pitfalls of Compstat...

Former Commander Recalls Pressure to Alter Reports

New specialist to combat gangs while giving members second chance

New specialist to combat gangs while giving members second chance takes an interesting approach to utilizing a gang intelligence analyst. Read it!

Hope for Students

For students who would like to be crime analysts some day - read this!
Student working with Phoenix Police homicide unit

Predictive Policing: What Can We Learn from Wal-Mart and Amazon about Fighting Crime in a Recession?

Predictive Policing: What Can We Learn from Wal-Mart and Amazon about Fighting Crime in a Recession? by Charlie Beck, Chief of Detectives, Los Angeles Police Department, and Colleen McCue, President and Chief Executive Officer, MC2 Solutions, LLC, Midlothian, Virginia in the The Police Chief online magazine.

Easy = True

Easy = True is an article to get you thinking about your thinking... how might it pertain to the world of crime and intelligence analysis? I am certain it does.

INTELLIGENCE LED POLICING: A VALUABLE LAW ENFORCEMENT PHILOSOPHY

INTELLIGENCE LED POLICING: A VALUABLE LAW ENFORCEMENT PHILOSOPHY is an online article by Stephen R. Auger from Innovative-analytics & Training. Feedback is welcome.

Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Annual Threat Assessment of the US Intelligence Community for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence

Cross-jurisdictional Analysis

Two recent articles on this topic:

Local police join forces on crime data analysis
Cushing Police Host County Intelligence Meeting

Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism Report Card

Prevention of WMD Proliferation and Terrorism Report Card January 26, 2010 from the Commission on the Prevention of Weapons of Mass Destruction Proliferation and Terrorism

Excerpt:
"Proposals like that of the Director of National Intelligence to establish an Intelligence Officer Training Corps, modeled on the military’s ROTC program, are critical to provide future scientific and engineering personnel as well as linguistic and area studies for developing capable analysts. While the use of contract personnel fills some vacancies, the practice is overly expensive, creates no lasting organizational expertise, and is, at best, a short-term solution to a long-term problem. What needs to be done is known and the national consequences of not hiring a sufficient number of qualified individuals are understood. Therefore, the decision of both the Administration and Congress to not adequately fund needed recruitment and retention programs, to include joint-duty assignments, is an inexcusable failure. To judge this situation as anything other than an abject failure, both the Administration and Congress must commit to spending what is required to recruit, hire, train, and
retrain a qualified, motivated national security workforce."

Intelligence Reform: The Lessons and Implications of the Christmas Day Attack

Intelligence Reform: The Lessons and Implications of the Christmas Day Attack
Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee
20 January 2010
Statement for the Record of Dennis C. Blair, Director of National Intelligence and Michael E. Leiter, Director of the National Counterterrorism Center