Intelligence Preparation of the Community

As reflected in this past week's posts, information sharing and use of intelligence in the community are important issues. I wrote the article Intelligence Preparation of the Community: Adapting Aspects of Military Intelligence to Policing to describe a "positive intelligence" that might be used to help our communities increase safety. While I am not at all advocating for a more military-like police, I do think we can learn how to view intelligence as an integral part of our work in policing from some of the the approaches of the military in this regard.