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.

The monograph Assessing and Managing the Terrorism Threat explains risk assessment, how it is conducted, and how it fits into the risk management process. The monograph defines terms used in risk management—including threat, vulnerability, and criticality assessment—and provides a utilitarian risk management methodology. It also discusses how local practices are being adapted to implement the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) State Homeland Security Assessment and Strategy Program.

The GlobalJustice Information Sharing Initiative (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 provides law enforcement and justice agencies with guidance and recommendations on issues to consider when developing a social media policy (or updating other relevant policies), focusing on access, use, storage, and dissemination of information obtained from social media sites for investigative and criminal intelligence purposes. The document includes recommended elements of the related policy, focusing on potential privacy, civil rights, and civil liberties implications.

The purpose of this document is to provide a methodology for fusion center directors and managers to facilitate technology planning and to provide a practical perspective on the value of technology as an enabler to the fusion center mission. This document has been developed to work in conjunction with other fusion center technology information resources.

This report provides an in-depth look at the successful integration of analytics within law enforcement agencies. It examines the application and impact of several initiatives, some of which are based on intelligence-led policing. The Bureau of Justice Assistance, Law Enforcement Forecasting Group, offers the recommendations in this report as a means to identify and anticipate problems, forecast crime trends and patterns, allocate agency resources, and prevent or mitigate criminal activity critical to enhancing community safety.

The report Law Enforcement Intelligence: A Guide for State, Local, and Tribal Law Enforcement Agencies provides guidance to state, local, and tribal law enforcement (SLTLE) agencies to develop an intelligence capacity or enhance their current one. To maximize effectiveness, the standards used in the preparation of this guide ensure that it is contemporary, informative, prescriptive, and resource-rich. This guide is intended to provide fundamental information about the contemporary law enforcement intelligence function in its application to SLTLE agencies. The guide embodies the intelligence-led policing philosophy, demonstrating how it complements community policing already in use by American law enforcement. It also incorporates the principles, ideology, and standards of both the National Criminal Intelligence Sharing Plan and the Global Justice Information Sharing Initiative.

In support of the National Security Strategy, which sets forth national security priorities, the National Intelligence Strategy (NIS) provides the Intelligence Community (IC) with the mission direction of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) for the next four to five years. IC activities must be consistent with, and responsive to, national security priorities and must comply with the Constitution, applicable statutes, and Congressional oversight requirements.

This document assists agencies in determining whether they are in compliance with applicable privacy-related policies, procedures, rules, and guidelines. The document includes a suggested methodology for conducting the review of an agency's intelligence enterprise and identifies the high-liability areas of concern that should be included when performing the review. The document also contains a suggested list of questions to answer when conducting the compliance process but may not cover all laws, policies, and procedures that are applicable to a particular state or agency.

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 United States successful crime reduction efforts by law enforcement agencies using intelligence-led policing.

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

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.