ABSTRACT
There is a case to be made for moving beyond the Intelligence Cycle in the policing sector and it lies in a critical appraisal of the contemporary practices of intelligence-led policing. This chapter provides a critique of the Intelligence Cycle under several headings: management mythology, the rhetoric of realism, the data delusion, the panoptic promise, covert policing and antitrust, and war fever. Practical considerations about what lies beyond the Intelligence Cycle in policing rest upon the foundations of a sure understanding of present practice.
