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Learning from the Military - LawOfficer.com

Deborah Osborne, 2009 Sept 30, Deborah Osborne

I was recently surprised to learn the U.S. military has a category of intelligence called CRIMINT, which stands for criminal intelligence. CRIMINT results from the collection, analysis and interpretation...

Target Your Worst Offenders - LawOfficer.com

Deborah Osborne, 2009 Aug 19, Deborah Osborne

Research shows that 6% of criminals commit approximately 60% of the crime occurring in your jurisdiction. It only makes sense to find out who these 6% are, but it isn’t as easy as it sounds. How can you...

Strategic Thinking for Winning

Deborah Osborne, 2009 Aug 3, Deborah Osborne

My column last month explored the fact that we, as a society, analyze sports more than we analyze crime. This column explores the possibility of becoming more strategic as police agencies. Successful sport...

Play to Win

Deborah Osborne, 2009 Jun 2, Deborah Osborne

It didn't take me long, when I was a new crime analyst over 11 years ago, to realize that we, as a society, put more effort and thought into analyzing sports than we put effort and thought into analyzing...

Online Degrees in Crime Analysis

Deborah Osborne, 2009 May 5, Deborah Osborne

Maybe your agency is too small to hire a crime analyst, or maybe you are the crime analyst in need of professional development. Maybe you want to earn a degree that will be relevant to your work. Maybe...

Find Your Missing Children

Deborah Osborne, 2009 Apr 7, Deborah Osborne

On March 9, 2009, I interviewed three analysts from the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC) on my podcast, "Analysts' Corner" on Blog Talk Radio. As the interview progressed It was...

Gangs Moving to Your Town

Deborah Osborne, 2009 Mar 3, Deborah Osborne

The National Gang Threat Assessment 2009 is the perfect example of a strategic analytical product. The threat assessment was prepared by the National Drug Intelligence Center (NDIC) in a collaborative...

Arizona Counter Terrorism Center

Deborah Osborne, 2009 Feb 12, Deborah Osborne

As Arizona Governor Janet Napolitano assumes her leadership role as Secretary of the Department of Homeland Security, we can rest assured that good intelligence analysis will be one of her priorities....

Be In the Know

Deborah Osborne, 2009 Jan 8, Deborah Osborne

What resource in your law enforcement agency is unlimited and can be in many places at one time? "Information" is the answer, and actionable knowledge produced by analyzing it increases its general value....

Analyze Local Indicators of Terrorism

Deborah Osborne, 2008 Dec 8, Deborah Osborne

"All terrorism is local. Local, state and tribal agencies are more likely to see indicators of terrorism in the crime data that they are already collecting," says Dale Smith, Training Manager at the National...