List and discuss the four fundamental differences between criminal investigation and criminal intelligence gathering

What will be an ideal response?


• The four are: 1) criminal investigation is reactive, while intelligence gathering is proactive; 2) criminal investigators use deductive logic, while intelligence gathering uses inductive logic; 3) investigation cases files are open, while intelligence files are closed; 4) success in the criminal investigation is the arrest or conviction of a suspect, while success in intelligence gathering is gauged by the cataloguing of an intelligence product.

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