After several years of collaboration with the police as a university researcher the author accepted a part time employment at the intelligence unit of the National Police of Sweden in 2019. His work was linked with a group of analysts dedicated to understanding what can be described as “gang-neighborhoods.” Working from within the organization led to substantial advantages in terms of accesibility to data and to police decision-making, but also led to increased levels of administration and bureacracy. In the present chapter the challenges and benefits of being embedded with the police will be discussed. A concrete intervention will be used as an example of an evidence-based policing practice that was facilitated by being embedded with the police—the pilot test of police helicopters to perform hot spot policing against burning cars in deprived neighborhoods.