About
Deborah Osborne is a former crime analyst who writes books. Her book Elements of Crime Patterns will be available from Routledge in April 2026. She is currently working on a series of fictional stories - involving a pair of clever female law enforcement analysts - to illustrate the value of the law enforcement analyst profession. A sample story is at the "Fiction" page on this site.
Debbie retired as a U.S. Secret Service Investigative Analyst and was a Crime Analyst for the Buffalo Police Department for 10 years. As a crime analyst, she read and analyzed the narratives of over 100,000 police crime reports. She co-authored the 2003 book Introduction to Crime Analysis and wrote Out of Bounds: Innovation and Change in Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysis in 2005 as a research fellow for the Joint Military Intelligence College. She also self-published a collection of her poetry, Luck Will Find You, in 2023.
