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Organized crime investigative nonprofit

InSight Crime Founded April 2010 Type 501(c)(3) Focus Investigative journalism Location(s) Washington, D.C., United States Medellín, Colombia Region served United States, Latin America, Caribbean Website InSightCrime.org

**InSight Crime** is a non-profit [think tank](/source/Think_tank) and media organization specializing in [organized crime](/source/Organized_crime) in [Latin America](/source/Latin_America) and the Caribbean.[1][2] The organization has offices in [Washington, D.C.](/source/Washington%2C_D.C.), and Medellín, Colombia.

InSight Crime receives funding from the [United States Department of State](/source/United_States_Department_of_State), the [Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency](/source/Swedish_International_Development_Cooperation_Agency) and the [Open Society Foundations](/source/Open_Society_Foundations).[3][4][5] It has also worked with the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at [American University](/source/American_University) and with the Colombian think tank *Fundación Ideas para la Paz*.[6][5]

## History

InSight Crime was founded in April 2010 under the endorsement of the Fundación Ideas para la Paz (FIP) in [Bogotá](/source/Bogot%C3%A1), Colombia, and with the financial support of the [Open Society Foundations](/source/Open_Society_Foundations). By August 2010, the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at the [American University](/source/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](/source/Latin_America) crime and "the effectiveness of the initiatives designed to stop them."[8]

## 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."[9]

## Consultancy

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

## 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](/source/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[\[update\]](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=InSight_Crime&action=edit), Insight Crime indicated that the Open Society Foundation was a "major funder".[11]

## See also

- [Southern Pulse](/source/Southern_Pulse)

## References

1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** ["About Us"](https://insightcrime.org/about-us/). *Insight Crime*. Retrieved 21 July 2023.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** Menjivar, Vincent (5 June 2012). ["Organized Crime Finds Fertile Ground Across Latin America"](http://global.christianpost.com/news/organized-crime-finds-fertile-ground-across-latin-america-75877/). *[The Christian Post](/source/The_Christian_Post)*. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20140812133922/http://global.christianpost.com/news/organized-crime-finds-fertile-ground-across-latin-america-75877/) from the original on 12 August 2014. Retrieved 3 October 2012.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:0_3-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:0_3-1) ["Insight Crime Profile"](https://www.highergov.com/awardee/insight-crime-inc-12508262/). *www.highergov.com*. Retrieved 2024-03-12.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:1_4-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:1_4-1) Cybercom. ["Insight Crime Latin America - Core Support"](https://openaid.se/en/contributions/SE-0-SE-6-16560). *Openaid*. Retrieved 2024-03-12.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-:2_5-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-:2_5-1) ["InSight Crime - Ten Years of Investigating Organized Crime in the Americas"](http://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/insight-crime-ten-years/). *InSight Crime*. 2020-11-02. Retrieved 2024-03-12.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-6)** ["Providing Insight: A Look into Organized Crime"](http://www.soros.org/events/providing-insight-look-organized-crime). *[Open Society Foundations](/source/Open_Society_Foundations)*. 2 March 2011. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20130219034109/http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/events/providing-insight-look-organized-crime) from the original on 19 February 2013. Retrieved 3 October 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-7)** [*Mexico's Criminal Insurgency: A Small Wars Journal*](https://books.google.com/books?id=xNuk1Fhj9UoC&q=InSight+Crime&pg=PA100). [iUniverse](/source/IUniverse). 24 March 2012. p. 100. [ISBN](/source/ISBN_(identifier)) [978-1475927290](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1475927290). Retrieved 3 October 2012.

1. ^ [***a***](#cite_ref-insightcrime_8-0) [***b***](#cite_ref-insightcrime_8-1) ["About InSight - Organized Crime"](http://www.insightcrime.org/the-organization/about-insight-organized-crime). InSight Crime. [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20121104011212/http://www.insightcrime.org/the-organization/about-insight-organized-crime) from the original on 4 November 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-9)** ["InSight Crime: A Web-based Clearinghouse on Organized Crime in Latin America"](http://www.american.edu/clals/InSight.cfm). [Washington D.C.](/source/Washington_D.C.): [American University](/source/American_University). [Archived](https://web.archive.org/web/20121022192857/http://www.american.edu/clals/InSight.cfm) from the original on 22 October 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-10)** McDermott, Jeremy (Winter 2012). ["Investigating Organized Crime"](https://web.archive.org/web/20121027054915/http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/publications/revistaonline/winter-2012/investigating-organized-crime). *ReVista*. [Cambridge, Massachusetts](/source/Cambridge%2C_Massachusetts). [Harvard University](/source/Harvard_University). Archived from [the original](http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/publications/revistaonline/winter-2012/investigating-organized-crime) on 27 October 2012. Retrieved 3 October 2012.

1. **[^](#cite_ref-11)** Dudley, Steven (2017-03-27). ["Guatemala's CICIG: An Experiment in Motion Gets a Report Card"](http://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/guatemala-cicig-an-experiment-in-motion-gets-a-report-card/). *InSight Crime*. Retrieved 2024-03-12.

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