Crime Stoppers is a program designed to utilize the media and other resources to entice information from the public that can facilitate police investigations.
CSI coordinates networking resources for local Crime Stoppers' operations, such as a website and a print publication called The Caller.
The main goal is to produce televised re-enactments, offer rewards and promises of anonymity for information leading to an arrest.
Detective Greg MacAleese was investigating the murder of a gas station attendant, Michael Carmen, in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1976 when he came up with the idea.
[7] In Guatemala Crime Stoppers signed an agreement with the Ministry of the Interior (Governance) and operates tupista.gt, a website collecting anonymous tips.