Provides a compendium of essays that explore law enforcement intelligence techniques and their utility

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Can’t We All Just Get Along: Improving the Law Enforcement-Intelligence Community Relationship

The FBI vs. CIA turf battles of the Cold War are the stuff of Washington legend. Things are much better now. They were getting better anyway, and then 9/11 accelerated the process. But…there is room for improvement.

The first essays here lay out some of the intelligence techniques that have proven effective in either Law Enforcement (LE) or the Intelligence Community (IC) and that might be useful to exchange and apply. They are followed by essays that point out some of the diffi culties inherent in integrating the two communities. We conclude with a few abstracts of recent work done at the National Defense Intelligence College on other aspects of this topic. The bibliography is a compilation of key sources from the authors’ works but is by no means exhaustive.

The writers, whether faculty, fellows, or students, are professionals with years of experience to inform their scholarship. In addition to the fi rst-hand knowledge they bring to their subjects, they are also well connected, with rolodexes that have opened doors for them into wardrooms and squad bays, as well as offi ce suites, where few academics have access. The writers’ own resources are supplemented by the College, which funds travel and makes introductions for visits both with the top brass and to the remotest outposts.

The result, we hope, is a set of articles that is rich in detail. While some “big ideas” have made the cut, the real treasures here are the details of law enforcement analytic technique, the tradecraft of DEA’s counter-narcotic intelligence in Bangkok, the HUMINT collection procedures on the streets of Mogadishu or Chicago, and the like. While maintaining high academic standards, this work aims to be more than academic.

This product has been reviewed by senior experts from academia, industry, and government and has been approved for unrestricted distribution by the Offi ce of Security Review, U.S. Department of Defense. It is available to the public through the National Technical Information Service (www.ntis.gov).

Timothy.Christenson@dia.mil, Editor
Center for Strategic Intelligence Research

ISBN 978-1-932946-18-5
Library of Congress Control Number 200693772

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Publisher: United States Dept. of Defense (February 14, 2008)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 1932946187
ISBN-13: 978-1932946185

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FOREWORD
Intelligence—vital information about persons and phenomena that would do us harm—has been used to great effect by the Law Enforcement community for many years to support operations and ensure public safety.

Human source development tradecraft, technical collection techniques, analytic methodologies and tools, and information sharing policies and systems have been a mainstay of law enforcement operations for many years.

Globalization and the decline of the nation state have given rise to new adversaries, many of which resemble shadowy criminal-like networks that use technology to operate across national boundaries and threaten both national security and public safety.

Can’t We All Just Get Along? Improving the Law Enforcement-Intelligence Community Relationship is a powerful and thoughtful compendium that explores law enforcement intelligence techniques and their utility for the National Intelligence Community, as well as proven Intelligence Community methodologies and their potential application for law enforcement intelligence operations. Most importantly, the compendium eloquently reminds us that it is the “soft stuff”—culture, training, trust—that presents the greatest challenge to achieving a partnership between Law Enforcement and the Intelligence Community that the threat
demands and our citizens deserve.

Much has been said about Law Enforcement not “getting” intelligence and about the Intelligence Community not “getting” law enforcement operations.

Those of us who have had the privilege of serving in both communities know from experience that neither assertion is true and have urged a thoughtful analysis of facts to tamp down the emotion that surrounds this debate.

This work succeeds in moving us beyond surface judgments and emotions, exploring law enforcement intelligence tools and techniques in some depth and pointing to their utility in fi ghting and prevailing over today’s adversaries.

Just as importantly, it points to extant Intelligence Community practices that if applied broadly will help Law Enforcement make the transition from prosecution to prevention. ...

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