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Informant - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
An informant (known in law enforcement as a criminal informant or C.I. ) is someone who provides privileged information about a person or organization to an agency, usually law enforcement, with...
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Amazon.com: Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of
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Most law enforcement agencies use a form to fully identify their informants and document their criminal histories. Some of the forms resemble arrest reports, others are as complete as an application for employment.
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Unlike witnesses, informants are motivated by self-advancement. Informants work for the government, often secretly, to gather and provide information or to testify in exchange for cash or leniency in punishment for their own crimes.
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By contrast, criminal informants are often compensated with leniency or are paid small sums, and often simply released into the same streets from which they came. "It's all about this staggering misallocation of resources," says Brown.
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A hearing this morning of two U.S. House of Representatives judiciary subcommittees featured the testimony of several national experts on the use of criminal informants by police. Among those testifying was Alexandra Natapoff, a professor at Loyola Law School in Los Angeles.
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