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| Founded | April 2010 |
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| Type | 501(c)(3) |
| Focus | Investigative journalism |
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Area served | United States,Latin America,Caribbean |
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| Employees | 40 |
| Website | InSightCrime.org |
InSight Crime is a non-profitthink tank and media organization specializing inorganized crime inLatin America and the Caribbean.[1][2] The organization has offices inWashington, D.C., and Medellín, Colombia.
InSight Crime receives funding from theUnited States Department of State, theSwedish International Development Cooperation Agency and theOpen Society Foundations.[3][4][5] It has also worked with the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies atAmerican University and with the Colombian think tankFundación Ideas para la Paz.[6][5]
InSight Crime was founded by Jeremy McDermott and Steven Dudley (a journalist who formerly reported forNPR,The Washington Post and theMiami Herald) in April 2010 under the endorsement of the Fundación Ideas para la Paz (FIP) inBogotá, Colombia, and with the financial support of theOpen Society Foundations. By August 2010, the Center for Latin American and Latino Studies at theAmerican 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 inLatin American crime and "the effectiveness of the initiatives designed to stop them."[8]
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]
Apart from publishing information on its website, InSight Crime also conducts investigations across Latin America for private and government organizations.[8][10]
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 theBureau 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], Insight Crime indicated that the Open Society Foundation was a "major funder".[11]
