ABSTRACT
All proactive major criminal investigations must be preceded by an intelligence workup and assessment. Normally this is a careful gathering of information, analysis, resource identiœcation, and commitment to the case. “ere may be instances in proactive cases where immediate decisions must be made, but I cannot think of one. We must react to major events as discussed in Part I, but we need not react in a proactive case. Sudden political pressure to arrest a class of people too quickly is not acceptable, can never be acceptable, and will end only with disastrous results, mostly internal within the unit assigned. “e other side of that is you cannot accept direction via political pressure not to arrest criminals because of classiœcations or status. You cannot lead police oŒcers with a political rope around your neck.
