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Chapter 13
Criminal
Intelligence and
Crime Analysis
Whatever has happened to this—someday someone will die—and wall or
not—the public will not understand why we were not more eective and
throwing every resource we had at certain ‘problems’…especially since the
biggest threat to us, [Osama bin Laden], is getting the most ‘protection.’
August 29, 2001 e-mail from an unidentied FBI Special Agent to
FBI Headquarters complaining about the “wall” between criminal
and intelligence investigations. (Quoted in Ashcroft, 2006)
Chapter Objectives
1. Understand criminal intelligence and crime analysis, and explain
their similarities/dierences.
2. Describe the history of criminal intelligence, and explain why its use
has waxed and waned in America ...