InSight Crime
Tuesday, January 14, 2014 - 00:00
The UN's Juan Ernesto Mendez told Folha de Sao Paulo newspaper that prisoners left jails worse than when they entered.
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 00:00
In some favelas, no homicides had occurred within the past year, the report said. But residents of other favelas said they had seen no changes in the levels of violence since the UPPs began operating in Rio. Others said their presence had increased tensi
Friday, December 20, 2013 - 00:00
While Chicago battles a heroin epidemic, US law enforcement has focused its efforts on attacking the link between the street gangs running sales and their Mexican suppliers in the Sinaloa Cartel.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 00:00
The report also details how the FARC have stepped up political operations by influencing social movements and protests, including the recent coca growers strike in the region of Catatumbo.
Thursday, December 19, 2013 - 00:00
Mexico's national government claims homicides have dropped significantly during President Enrique Pena Nieto's first year. However, security analyst Alejandro Hope's closer examination of the 2013 numbers and their relationship to 2012 show this is not th
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 00:00
Strengthening institutions contributes to combating corruption. To do this there are three lines of action that have been shown to be effective.
Wednesday, December 18, 2013 - 00:00
Former sworn enemies from criminal clans based in Colombia's violence capital, Cali, have brokered an alliance from prison, according to security forces, which if successful could shape the underworld in one of Colombia's key drug trafficking regions.
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - 00:00
Many of the girls drawn into gang life and the Medellin sex trade simply disappear. In 2013, close to 600 children have disappeared -- a majority of them girls -- according to investigators in the mayor's office.
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - 00:00
The failure to reach the aerial fumigation target comes after spray planes were grounded for two months after two aircraft came under ground fire while flying though territory controlled by the rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) i
Tuesday, December 17, 2013 - 00:00
Notwithstanding the elements that might be appealing in a vacuum, for people familiar with the Knights, much of their handbook is laughably hypocritical.