What If We Practiced Interdisciplinarity?

What If we practiced interdisciplinarity in crime and intelligence analysis?

Read the article at the link at the post title and try to adapt its concepts to the complex world of crime and intelligence analysis. We could begin by learning to understand the variety of roles and backgrounds needed for quality crime and intelligence analysis.

Article excerpts:

"Thinking collectively about complex problems requires crossing boundaries both horizontally (across disciplines) and vertically (across experts, policymakers, practitioners,and the public)."

"Doing collective interdisciplinary research, especially projects
stressing the feedbacks between social and environmental
systems, is difficult at the best of times. Yet surely most efforts
fail before they get seriously under way because the participants
from different intellectual communities never recognize
the barriers created by their separate ways of understanding
and approaching problems."

"....participants in interdisciplinary research
projects must overcome various biases and prejudices
that accompany disciplinary training. Contrary to their disciplinary
training, participants need to be self-reflective about
the value judgments embedded in their choice of variables and
models, willing to give respect to and also learn more about
the "other," and able to work with new models and taxonomies
used by others."

"To promote interdisciplinary research at large, individual- and
team-level must be complemented by strategies with major
institution-level changes in curricula, incentives, evaluation
criteria, and accountability. These may not be in the hands of
individuals who seek to do interdisciplinary work; however,
some of these constraints could be eased at the outset of
major interdisciplinary projects (e.g., by getting parent
institutions to agree that the outputs that emerge should not
be weighed by conventional disciplinary or departmental
standards)."