Reducing Crime Through Intelligence-Led Policing serves to demonstrate the value of ILP in improving agency operations. The purpose of this document is to illustrate, to agencies across the US, successful crime reduction efforts by law enforcement agencies using intelligence-led policing.

Designed to serve as a pocket-sized reference card for line officers who are responding to a First Amendment-protected event and provides an overview of their roles and responsibilities, as well as an overview of the rights of the participants of First Amendment-protected events.

The U.S. DOJ’s Global Advisory Committee, its working groups, and partner organizations have developed many valuable resources to assist practitioners in improving agency operations and criminal intelligence sharing efforts. However, to centrally locate these resources in an easily accessible format/venue and provide a single reference to “all things intelligence” is an ongoing goal and challenge. The Criminal Intelligence Resources Guide (“Guide”) was created to address this need. This compendium of intelligence products was prepared under the guidance of the Criminal Intelligence Coordinating Council (CICC) and its research arm, the Global Intelligence Working Group, providing a well-balanced approach not only to the content and organization of the Guide itself but to the many resources included. While the Guide does not claim to be the all-encompassing intelligence resource, it does aim to capture a valuable representation of the related tools available to the justice community. This is a “living document,” and persistent efforts will be employed to continually update it as new resources are identified.

This document serves as an overview for implementing the Intelligence-Led Policing (ILP) framework within a law enforcement agency and provides insight regarding the challenges of ILP implementation. Law enforcement executives can use this document as a resource to assist in the successful implementation of the ILP framework within their agency.

The purpose of this document is to provide a tool to fusion center directors/managers to assist with understanding and implementing the fundamental business requirements of the center and planning for the underlying components for each of the business processes the particular fusion center is or will be undertaking (e.g., SAR process, training, and statewide incident analysis).

This second Annual Report to the Congress on the Information Sharing Environment (ISE) is submitted in accordance with requirements in Section 1016(h) of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004, as amended. This report describes the state of the ISE, highlights areas where there has been measurable progress in improving information sharing, and demonstrates the value of the ISE to the nation’s broader counterterrorism mission.

An updated National Strategy for Homeland Security will serve to guide, organize, and unify our nation's homeland security efforts. It builds on the first National Strategy for Homeland Security, issued in July 2002, and complements both the National Security Strategy issued in March 2006 and the National Strategy for Combating Terrorism issued in September 2006. It reflects the increased understanding of the threats confronting the United States, incorporates lessons learned from exercises and real-world catastrophes, and articulates how to ensure our long-term success by strengthening the homeland security foundation. Issued October 2007.

This Tech Guide, prepared by SEARCH, is intended to provide strategies, best practices, recommendations, and ideas for developing and implementing information technology security policies. It offers a straight-forward approach to help law enforcement agencies through an often complex process and provides a framework to gauge the performance and effectiveness of these policies. This Tech Guide is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS).

This user-friendly Tech Guide, prepared by SEARCH, offers strategies, best practices, recommendations, and ideas for successful information technology planning and implementation for small and rural police agencies. The Tech Guide is funded by the U.S. Department of Justice, Office of Community Oriented Policing Services (COPS).

This Policy Issue Brief discusses a groundbreaking effort by the state of New Mexico and three Indian nations—the Pueblos of Acoma, Laguna, and Zuni—to improve criminal record information sharing across tribal, state and federal jurisdictions, through forging new partnerships with the common goal of improving public safety.

This document provides guidelines for Global Justice XML Data Model (GJXDM) implementation, reference architecture, and best practices for the novice as well as the experienced practitioner.

Homeland Security and the Analysis of Foreign Intelligence discusses the Central Intelligence Agency’s (CIA) Counterterrorist Center (CTC) and its role in the intelligence community. This article examines what is required by the CIA to become a CTC analyst. The roles of a CTC analyst include, but are not limited to, monitoring incoming intelligence, analyzing intelligence, producing finished intelligence, and disseminating finished intelligence to the intelligence community.

The Congressional Research Service (CRS) report "The SAFE Acts of 2005: H.R. 1526 and S. 737—A Sketch" discusses these two acts. The acts address many of the same issues including the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) wiretaps, delayed notification of “sneak-and-peek” search warrants, library and similar exemptions from FISA tangible item orders and communications related to national security letters, the definition of “domestic terrorism,” and expansion of the sunset provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act.

The report "Federal Counter-Terrorism Training: Issues for Congressional Oversight" is an overview of the major training activities and facilities of the federal departments and agencies that provide counter-terrorism training. This report identifies some of the issues associated with the training, including possible duplication of federal counter-terrorism training programs; determination of U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) counter-terrorism training priorities; and possible redundancy and coordination of DHS counter-terrorism training programs.

The study "National Assessment of Technology and Training for Small and Rural Law Enforcement Agencies (NATTS): A Descriptive Analysis" provides an assessment of the technological capabilities and training needs for small/rural law enforcement organizations, including what technology is currently being used, as well as the barriers to receiving the appropriate technology and training.

The National Archive of Criminal Justice Data (NACJD) preserves and distributes computerized crime and justice data from state and federal agencies and investigator-initiated research projects to users for secondary statistical analysis. The NACJD is supported by the Bureau of Justice Statistics (BJS) and the National Institute of Justice (NIJ) in the U.S. Department of Justice. The central mission of NACJD is to facilitate and to encourage research in the field of criminal justice through the preservation and sharing of computerized data resources and through the provision of specialized training in quantitative analysis of crime and justice data. NACJD assists in identification of appropriate criminal justice data collections on specific topics, custom subsetting of selected data files through the online data analysis system, and the retrieval and use of files obtained from the archive.

According to the report "Accelerated Information Sharing for Law Enforcement (AISLE) Using Web Services," information sharing is the defining principle for public safety, and Web services is the technology best positioned to facilitate sharing and lower costs. This report discusses how, under the AISLE Project, Nlets—The International Justice and Public Safety Information Sharing Network provides a network for criminal justice information exchange and defines new standards based upon Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Web services.

The National Criminal Justice Reference Service’s (NCJRS) resources are available to individuals interested in crime and public safety. NCJRS offers reference and referral services to answer questions about crime and justice-related research, policy, and practice. NCJRS can offer statistics and referrals, discuss publications, compile information packages, search for additional resources, and provide other technical assistance. NCJRS also provides information about new publications, grants and funding opportunities, and other news and announcements, as well as hosting the criminal and juvenile justice libraries and the NCJRS Abstracts Database. The collection, encompassing information from the early 1970s to the present, contains more than 180,000 publications, reports, articles, and audiovisual products from the United States and around the world. These resources include statistics, research findings, program descriptions, congressional hearing transcripts, and training materials.

The Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 is intended to improve the intelligence, intelligence community, and intelligence-related activities of the United States government, including the prevention and prosecution of terrorism, border security, and international cooperation and coordination.

This Web site discusses the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative (Global) Justice Extensible Markup Language (XML) Data Model (Global JXDM), which is a comprehensive product that includes a data model, a data dictionary, and an XML schema. The Global JXDM is an XML standard designed specifically for criminal justice information exchanges, providing law enforcement, public safety agencies, prosecutors, public defenders, and the judicial branch with a tool to effectively share data and information in a timely manner. Today, more than 50 law enforcement and justice-related projects have been implemented utilizing the Global JXDM.

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