Sunday, March 29, 2009

Lost for Words: The Intelligence Community’s Struggle to Find its Voice

Lost for Words: The Intelligence Community’s Struggle to Find its Voice by Josh Kerbel, published in 2008, is an excellent essay. While it addresses analysis in the Intelligence Community, rather than law enforcement, I believe its central theme also applies to crime and intelligence analysis in policing:

"...it is clearly necessary for the analytic community to find a new conceptual model, one that raises the level by which both artistic and scientific approaches are applied while simultaneously blending them into a sort of complementary “alloy.” Ideally, this new model would integrate art and science and yet forsake high art and hard science pretensions."

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