Annie Mitchell is a retired Supervising Crime Analyst and Training Coordinator from the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department (LASD) after forty-three years of service. She worked as a Sheriff’s dispatcher for over ten years and promoted to the position of crime analyst in 1987. In 2007, she was promoted to Supervising Crime Analyst. As a Supervising Crime Analyst, Annie was responsible for the development and management of the current centralized crime analysis unit. At any given time, she supervised between twelve to twenty-six crime analysts at assignments throughout Los Angeles County. She created the LASD Crime Analysis Training Program and was responsible for the hiring and training of new crime analysts. As supervisor, Annie provided instructional support, assignment deliverables and mentoring for crime analysts located throughout the county of Los Angeles at several assignments.

Presently, Annie is a provider for the Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) delivering training and consulting to requesting agencies throughout the country. She offers crime analysis assistance and training to agencies participating in the National Public Safety Partnerships (PSP) program to reduce gun violence within their communities. Annie is the subject matter expert for the "Crime Analysis Community of Practice" provided by the BJA/NTTAC and Institute for Intergovernmental Research (IIR). She is a California Advanced POST instructor providing training for sworn supervisors and managers on how to utilize and manage a crime analyst, crime analysis for gang investigators and is the developer and instructor of the POST certified “Crime and Intelligence Analysis-Level I” course.