InSight Crime: Intelligence Source Guide
InSight Crime is a non-profit newsroom and think tank covering organised crime in Latin America and the Caribbean, built on...
Gangs & Street Crime
Event / Incident: Data Point Intelligence Guide
An event is where every other data point converges: a time, a place, a set of actors, and the messy...
Court Case / Docket: Data Point Intelligence Guide
Court records are the only open dataset where an adversary is compelled to describe their own conduct under oath. Analysts...
License Plate: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A plate identifies a registration, not a person and not permanently a vehicle. It is the most privacy-loaded identifier most...
Location / Coordinates: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A place name is not a point. It is a claim about where something happened, carrying a resolution, a source...
Social Profile: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A social profile is a persona's self-published intelligence report. The metadata around it is usually more truthful than anything written...
Phone Number: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A phone number is a globally routable identifier attached to a real contract and, increasingly, to every account a person...
Person / Name: Data Point Intelligence Guide
A name is the weakest identifier in intelligence work and the one most likely to end a career when handled...
Legal Intelligence (LEGINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Litigation is an involuntary disclosure engine. Adversaries in court say, under oath and on the public record, what they will...
Social Media Intelligence (SOCMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Social platforms record behaviour, not truth: what was posted, when, by an account, to an audience. Social media intelligence keeps...
Human Intelligence (HUMINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Human intelligence is the only discipline where the source can be harmed by your success. Every rule in the tradecraft...
Geospatial Intelligence (GEOINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Place is the one attribute nearly every other data point carries. Geospatial intelligence makes place answer questions: what is here,...
Threat Actor Intelligence (ACTORINT): Intelligence Discipline Guide
Infrastructure changes weekly and tooling changes quarterly, but habits almost never change. Actor intelligence is the discipline of tracking what...
Extremism & Radicalization: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Radicalisation is not a conveyor belt. It is a set of grievances, communities and content economies, and most of what...
Kidnap, Hostage & Extortion: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A kidnap-for-ransom market has a price list, a broker layer and a settlement rail. Treat it as an economy rather...
Gangs & Street Crime: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Retaliation after a stabbing is usually measured in days, sometimes hours. The intelligence question is not who did it but...
Child Protection: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
The pattern that ends most sextortion cases is depressingly consistent: contact within hours, escalation within a day, and a payment...
Human Trafficking: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Very few trafficking victims arrive at a police station and describe themselves as trafficked. What arrives first is a wage...
Drug Trafficking: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
A cluster of six overdoses in one town over a weekend is not a public health footnote. It is the...
Organized Crime: Mission Domain Intelligence Guide
Organised crime leaves paperwork. Not confessions, but a notary who appears in eleven unrelated share transfers, a haulage firm with...
