REPORTING

The University of San Diego is a private Roman Catholic research university in California.

The institute's Department of Political Science & International Relations and its School of Peace Studies provide well-developed and unbiased research and analysis of the world's peace and security situation-

This report focuses on the problems of organized crime and violence in Mexico and its trends. This report contains chapters on the following topics:

• Homicides
• Intentional injuries
• Kidnappings
• Extortions
• Gender violence
• Political assassinations
• Police and military
• Violence against journalist Robbery
• Analysis and policy consideration

REPORT

ACADEMIC INTELLIGENCE

Even though universities have special research departments with analysts and former intelligence professionals, they are not considered private intelligence agencies (PIA), but rather research institutions.

A PIA is a private sector or quasi-non-government organization whose sole goal is to collect, analyze, and exploit information. These can rely on anything from SIGINT, HUMINT, OSINT, and IMINT.

While a university might also generate intelligence from passive collecting, many from OSINT heavily rely on official reporting of PIA, government sources, and NGOs. Ultimately, this makes university research on analysis and security highly reliable and impartial.