I've been blogging about crime and intelligence analysis in policing for over seven months now. Some of the materials I post come to my attention through Google Alerts. "Google Alerts are email updates of the latest relevant Google results (web, news, etc.) based on your choice of query or topic."
I have alerts for "crime analyst," "crime analysis," "intelligence analyst," "intelligence analysis," "intelligence led policing," a a few other phrases. Very rarely will anything related to policing come to me through an alert with the reference to "intelligence analysis" or "intelligence analyst."
I think this says something. Crime analyst" and "crime analysis" alerts almost always refer to policing while "intelligence analysis" or "intelligence analyst" almost NEVER refer to policing.
What do you think of that? Try it and see for yourself!
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