Deborah Osborne is a retired U.S. Secret Service Investigative Analyst and a former Crime Analyst for the Buffalo Police Department. As a crime analyst, she read and analyzed the narratives of over 100,000 police crime reports. She co-authored the book Introduction to Crime Analysis: Basic Resources for Criminal Justice Practice and wrote Out of Bounds: Innovation and Change in Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysis as a research fellow for the Joint Military Intelligence College. Osborne was the co-chair of the International Association of Crime Analysts' certification committee when it first developed certification standards for the profession. She trained analysts and taught this subject at the college level for over six years. She has won awards from the International Association of Crime Analysts and the International Association of Law Enforcement Intelligence Analysts for her contributions to the field.