{{Short description|Organized crime investigative nonprofit}} {{Infobox organization | name = InSight Crime | logo = InSight Crime-logo.jpeg | logo_size = 100px | type = [[501(c)(3)]] | founded = April 2010 | location = [[Washington, D.C.]], United States<br>[[Medellín]], Colombia | key_people = | region_served = United States, [[Latin America]], [[Caribbean]] | focus = [[Investigative journalism]] | num_employees = | website = [http://insightcrime.org/ InSightCrime.org] }} '''InSight Crime''' is a non-profit [[think tank]] and media organization specializing in [[organized crime]] in [[Latin America]] and the Caribbean.<ref>{{cite web |title=About Us |url=https://insightcrime.org/about-us/ |website=Insight Crime |access-date=21 July 2023}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Menjivar |first=Vincent |title=Organized Crime Finds Fertile Ground Across Latin America |url=http://global.christianpost.com/news/organized-crime-finds-fertile-ground-across-latin-america-75877/ |access-date=3 October 2012 |newspaper=[[The Christian Post]] |date=5 June 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140812133922/http://global.christianpost.com/news/organized-crime-finds-fertile-ground-across-latin-america-75877/ |archive-date=12 August 2014 |url-status=live }}</ref> 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]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Insight Crime Profile |url=https://www.highergov.com/awardee/insight-crime-inc-12508262/ |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=www.highergov.com}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite web |last=Cybercom |title=Insight Crime Latin America - Core Support |url=https://openaid.se/en/contributions/SE-0-SE-6-16560 |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=Openaid |language=en}}</ref><ref name=":2">{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2020-11-02 |title=InSight Crime - Ten Years of Investigating Organized Crime in the Americas |url=http://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/insight-crime-ten-years/ |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=InSight Crime |language=en-US}}</ref> 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''.<ref>{{cite news |title=Providing Insight: A Look into Organized Crime |url=http://www.soros.org/events/providing-insight-look-organized-crime |access-date=3 October 2012 |newspaper=[[Open Society Foundations]] |date=2 March 2011 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130219034109/http://www.opensocietyfoundations.org/events/providing-insight-look-organized-crime |archive-date=19 February 2013 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref name=":2" />
== 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.<ref>{{cite book|title=Mexico's Criminal Insurgency: A Small Wars Journal|publisher=[[iUniverse]]|isbn=978-1475927290|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xNuk1Fhj9UoC&q=InSight+Crime&pg=PA100|access-date=3 October 2012|page=100|date=24 March 2012}}</ref>
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 America]]n crime and "the effectiveness of the initiatives designed to stop them."<ref name="insightcrime">{{cite web |title=About InSight - Organized Crime |url=http://www.insightcrime.org/the-organization/about-insight-organized-crime |publisher=InSight Crime |access-date=3 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121104011212/http://www.insightcrime.org/the-organization/about-insight-organized-crime |archive-date=4 November 2012 |url-status=live }}</ref>
== 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."<ref>{{cite web |title=InSight Crime: A Web-based Clearinghouse on Organized Crime in Latin America |url=http://www.american.edu/clals/InSight.cfm |publisher=[[American University]] |access-date=3 October 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121022192857/http://www.american.edu/clals/InSight.cfm |archive-date=22 October 2012 |url-status=live |location=[[Washington D.C.]] }}</ref>
== Consultancy == Apart from publishing information on its website, InSight Crime also conducts investigations across Latin America for private and government organizations.<ref name="insightcrime" /><ref>{{cite news |last=McDermott |first=Jeremy |title=Investigating Organized Crime |url=http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/publications/revistaonline/winter-2012/investigating-organized-crime |access-date=3 October 2012 |newspaper=ReVista |date=Winter 2012 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20121027054915/http://www.drclas.harvard.edu/publications/revistaonline/winter-2012/investigating-organized-crime |archive-date=27 October 2012 |url-status=dead |agency=[[Harvard University]] |location=[[Cambridge, Massachusetts]] }}</ref>
== 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.<ref name=":0" /> For the period December 2023 through to June 2027, the Swedish government development agency (Sida) will fund Insight Crime US$890,410.<ref name=":1" /> {{As of|2016}}, Insight Crime indicated that the Open Society Foundation was a "major funder".<ref>{{Cite web |last=Dudley |first=Steven |date=2017-03-27 |title=Guatemala's CICIG: An Experiment in Motion Gets a Report Card |url=http://insightcrime.org/news/analysis/guatemala-cicig-an-experiment-in-motion-gets-a-report-card/ |access-date=2024-03-12 |website=InSight Crime |language=en-US}}</ref>
==See also== *[[Southern Pulse]]
== References == {{Reflist}}
{{Colombia conflict|state=collapsed}} {{Mexican Drug War|state=collapsed}} {{Caribbean topic|Illegal drug trade in|state=collapsed}} {{Latin America topic|Illegal drug trade in|state=collapsed}}
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