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InSight Crime

Organized crime investigative nonprofit

Field	Value
name	InSight Crime
logo	InSight Crime-logo.jpeg
logo_size	100px
type	501(c)(3)
founded_date	April 2010
location	Washington, D.C., United States
Medellín, Colombia
area_served	United States, Latin America, Caribbean
focus	Investigative journalism
homepage	InSightCrime.org

Medellín, Colombia InSight Crime is a non-profit think tank and media organization specializing in organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean. The organization has offices in Washington, D.C., and Medellín, Colombia.

InSight Crime receives funding from the United States Department of State, the Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency and the Open Society Foundations. It has also worked with the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at American University and with the Colombian think tank Fundación Ideas para la Paz.

History

InSight Crime was founded in April 2010 under the endorsement of the Fundación Ideas para la Paz (FIP) in Bogotá, Colombia, and with the financial support of the Open Society Foundations. By August 2010, the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at the American University became a sponsor.

According to the organization, it was founded in order to create an online platform that "connects the pieces, the players and organizations" involved in Latin American crime and "the effectiveness of the initiatives designed to stop them."

Website

Its website intends to create an "information resource and networking tool designed for students, academics, analysts, researchers, policymakers, journalists, non-governmental workers, government officials and businesses to obtain the information and contacts they need to tackle the problems that organized crime increasingly presents in Latin America and the Caribbean."

Consultancy

Apart from publishing information on its website, InSight Crime also conducts investigations across Latin America for private and government organizations.

External funding

Insight Crime is funded by a mixture of government grants and corporate philanthropy.

Between 2022 and 2023, Insignt Crime received US$530,900 in grants from the Bureau of Western Hemisphere Affairs of the United States Department of State. For the period December 2023 through to June 2027, the Swedish government development agency (Sida) will fund Insight Crime US$890,410. , Insight Crime indicated that the Open Society Foundation was a "major funder".

References

"About Us".
Menjivar, Vincent. (5 June 2012). "Organized Crime Finds Fertile Ground Across Latin America". [[The Christian Post]].
"Insight Crime Profile".
Cybercom. "Insight Crime Latin America - Core Support".
(2020-11-02). "InSight Crime - Ten Years of Investigating Organized Crime in the Americas".
(2 March 2011). "Providing Insight: A Look into Organized Crime". [[Open Society Foundations]].
(24 March 2012). "Mexico's Criminal Insurgency: A Small Wars Journal". [[iUniverse]].
"About InSight - Organized Crime". InSight Crime.
"InSight Crime: A Web-based Clearinghouse on Organized Crime in Latin America". [[American University]].
McDermott, Jeremy. (Winter 2012). "Investigating Organized Crime". ReVista.
Dudley, Steven. (2017-03-27). "Guatemala's CICIG: An Experiment in Motion Gets a Report Card".

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