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What is Actionable Information?
October 22, 2002

Let us define how a piece of information can be deemed as actionable? And where is that much sought after actionable information?.....

Is it possibe that most of the important information is either in short snippets of text or in small conversation pieces? Look for instance at this link. This article refers to the "serial sniper" incident in the Washington DC area.

A tough case to crack

And oddly enough, the information that the police are analyzing is coming from tips left by the callers at a "tip-phone-line" set up by the Montgomery County Police Head Quarters.