LEAF - CRIME ANALYSIS INTELLIGENCE ANALYSIS EXAM
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
What do crime analysts do? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅COPPERS: Crime, Offenders, Prioritize, Plan,
Educate, Resources, Solve
Information vs Intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Information is the product of analysis of data.
Intelligence is information that has operational value (a product rather than a source)
Who was the first to use modern crime analysis and products in the 1800s? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅London Metropolitan PD
Who was August Vollmer? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Father of American Policing. He was the Chief
ofPolice in Berkley CA (innovations include pin mapping, reports review, and forming patrol districts
based on crime volume
Who popularized the idea of crime analysis units? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅O.W Wilson
What did the Law Enforcement Assistance Association (LEAA) do? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Provided funding for mid-sized and smaller agencies and published crime analysis
manuals in the 1970's.
When was the IACA formed and why? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The IACA was formed in 1990. It
helped with community oriented policing and problem oriented policing funding and National Institute
of Justice programming
What did the Crime & Disorder act do? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅In 1998 it created a new local level
analyst in the UK.
How did 9/11 change crime analysis? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅It shifted priorities from traditional
crime analysis to intelligence gathering and homeland security.
QUESTIONS AND VERIFIED ANSWERS
What do crime analysts do? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅COPPERS: Crime, Offenders, Prioritize, Plan,
Educate, Resources, Solve
Information vs Intelligence - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Information is the product of analysis of data.
Intelligence is information that has operational value (a product rather than a source)
Who was the first to use modern crime analysis and products in the 1800s? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅London Metropolitan PD
Who was August Vollmer? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅Father of American Policing. He was the Chief
ofPolice in Berkley CA (innovations include pin mapping, reports review, and forming patrol districts
based on crime volume
Who popularized the idea of crime analysis units? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅O.W Wilson
What did the Law Enforcement Assistance Association (LEAA) do? - CORRECT
ANSWER✅✅✅Provided funding for mid-sized and smaller agencies and published crime analysis
manuals in the 1970's.
When was the IACA formed and why? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅The IACA was formed in 1990. It
helped with community oriented policing and problem oriented policing funding and National Institute
of Justice programming
What did the Crime & Disorder act do? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅In 1998 it created a new local level
analyst in the UK.
How did 9/11 change crime analysis? - CORRECT ANSWER✅✅✅It shifted priorities from traditional
crime analysis to intelligence gathering and homeland security.