Crime Prevention Consulting

The people who know how crime works are the best ones to stop it.

Criminal Insight is a consulting firm built on lived experience. Reformed ex-felons teaching communities, schools, and organizations how to protect themselves from the inside out.

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19M

Americans with felony records. A massive pool of untapped insight into how crime actually operates.

50%

Reduction in reoffending when communities invest in insider-led prevention programs.

182

Homicides in Kansas City in 2023. The highest on record. This city needs a new approach.

Our Thesis

Traditional security consulting sees crime from the outside looking in. We see it from the inside looking out.

Every crime prevention consultant in the country comes from law enforcement or academia. They study crime. We lived it.

That difference matters. When a reformed ex-felon walks into a school and explains how predators identify targets, it lands differently than a textbook. When they sit with a police department and map how criminal networks actually function, the intelligence is firsthand.

Criminal Insight turns past mistakes into community armor. Our consultants chose a different path, and now they use everything they learned to protect the people around them.

What We Do

01

Community Education

Workshops and programs that teach neighborhoods, churches, and community groups how to recognize threats, protect vulnerable members, and build safer environments using real-world criminal knowledge.

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02

School Safety Consulting

Programs for K-12 schools that go beyond lockdown drills. Our consultants teach students and staff how predatory behavior actually works, helping them recognize and avoid danger before it escalates.

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03

Law Enforcement Partnership

Bridging the gap between police departments and the communities they serve. We provide street-level intelligence and cultural context that traditional policing misses, strengthening community-police trust.

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04

Organizational Training

Custom consulting for nonprofits, businesses, and government agencies on crime prevention, reentry support, and building programs that reduce recidivism through authentic peer engagement.

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Building With Kansas City

Criminal Insight is rooted in KC and designed to work alongside the organizations already doing the work.

Ad Hoc Group Against Crime

Kansas City's trusted bridge between community and law enforcement since 1977. Building the new $6M Center for Healing & Justice.

KCPD Community Engagement

The Kansas City Police Department's division dedicated to collaborative, community-based violence prevention.

KC Community Network

Partners for Peace, Mothers In Charge, KC Common Good, and the broader ecosystem of organizations fighting for safer neighborhoods.

The streets taught us everything. Now we teach communities how to stay safe.

Criminal Insight exists because redemption should create value. Every lesson learned the hard way becomes a shield for someone else. Kansas City deserves consultants who don't just study crime. They survived it.

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