Summary: The final piece of the intelligence cycle is to utilize the tools discussed over the course of this series to offer recommendations and provide intelligence products to decision-makers. Intelligence products include reports and documents that contain assessments, forecasts, associations, links, and other outputs from the analytic process. These products are often disseminated to law enforcement agencies for prevention of crimes, target hardening, apprehension of offenders, and prosecution. Understanding how to articulate your analytical findings and being able to provide timely updates to your analysis will not only assist your agency in its public safety mission, but also increase your reliability and reputation as an analyst. In the final episode of our Developing the 21st Century Analyst series, we discuss putting all the analytical tools discussed together to provide accurate and actionable products to leaders and policymakers.
