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InSight Crime
FoundedApril 2010
Type501(c)(3)
FocusInvestigative journalism
Location
Area served
United States, Latin America, Caribbean
Key people
  • Steven Dudley
  • (director)
  • Jeremy McDermott
  • (director)
Employees
40
WebsiteInSightCrime.org

InSight Crime is a non-profit think tank and media organization specializing in organized crime in Latin America and the Caribbean [1][2] 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.[3][4][5] 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.[6][5]

History[edit]

InSight Crime was founded by Jeremy McDermott and Steven Dudley (a journalist who formerly reported for NPR, The Washington Post and the Miami Herald) 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.[7]

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."[8]

Website[edit]

InSight Crime launched its website in December 2010 with news on organized crime and profiles of drug trafficking organizations and criminal personalities in Colombia and Mexico.[citation needed]

The 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."[9]

Consultancy[edit]

Apart from publishing information on its website, InSight Crime also conducts investigations across Latin America for private and government organizations.[8][10]

External funding[edit]

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.[3] For the period December 2023 through to June 2027, the Swedish government development agency (Sida) will fund Insight Crime US$890,410.[4] As of 2016, Insight Crime indicated that the Open Society Foundation was a "major funder".[11]

See also[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "About Us". Insight Crime. Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  2. ^ Menjivar, Vincent (5 June 2012). "Organized Crime Finds Fertile Ground Across Latin America". The Christian Post. Archived from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  3. ^ a b "Insight Crime Profile". www.highergov.com. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  4. ^ a b Cybercom. "Insight Crime Latin America - Core Support". Openaid. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  5. ^ a b "InSight Crime - Ten Years of Investigating Organized Crime in the Americas". InSight Crime. 2020-11-02. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
  6. ^ "Providing Insight: A Look into Organized Crime". Open Society Foundations. 2 March 2011. Archived from the original on 19 February 2013. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  7. ^ Mexico's Criminal Insurgency: A Small Wars Journal. iUniverse. 24 March 2012. p. 100. ISBN 978-1475927290. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  8. ^ a b "About InSight - Organized Crime". InSight Crime. Archived from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  9. ^ "InSight Crime: A Web-based Clearinghouse on Organized Crime in Latin America". Washington D.C.: American University. Archived from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  10. ^ McDermott, Jeremy (Winter 2012). "Investigating Organized Crime". ReVista. Cambridge, Massachusetts. Harvard University. Archived from the original on 27 October 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2012.
  11. ^ Dudley, Steven (2017-03-27). "Guatemala's CICIG: An Experiment in Motion Gets a Report Card". InSight Crime. Retrieved 2024-03-12.
source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/InSight_Crime