Who makes the best confidential informants? In most cases, confidential informants must have proprietary information that can help the police solve an existing or future crime. CI's are often instrumental in the cases against drug dealers, murderers, organized crime operatives and the mafia.
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www.associatedcontent.com/article/196934/guide_to_becom...
www.associatedcontent.com/article/196934/guide_to_becoming_a_confidential_informant.html
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NEW YORK (AP) -- The informant's secretly recorded tapes -- exhibits 7A and 7B, as introduced by the prosecution -- incriminated the four "gangstas" charged with the attempted murder of a Bronx police captain. Yet in the ever-expanding brotherhood of CIs -- lawspeak for confidential informants -- tales of sweet deals...
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www.crimelynx.com/snitches.html
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Dec 21, 2006 Who's a Rat.com: List Police Informants and Undercover Agents unless it ever were to actually threaten informants or undercover agents.
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liftwhileclimbing.wordpress.com/2006/12/21/whos-a-ratcom-list-police-informants-and-undercover-agents/
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May 23, 2007 A controversial website posts the names and photos of police informants that users can view for a fee.
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People who help police arrest drug dealers can earn thousands of dollars and avoid drug charges of their own. But some continue to commit crimes and falsely accuse suspects. This three-part series examines the role of confidential informants in the so-called "War on Drugs."
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www.wvgazette.com/static/series/snitches/
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Informants are also extremely common in every-day police work, including homicide and narcotics investigations. Any citizen who aids an investigation by...
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en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Informant
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Feb 20, 2008 The revelations focused attention, if only briefly, on the murky world of police and their informants. While giving informants drugs is...
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www.gothamgazette.com/article/crime/20080220/4/2437
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Professionals will obviously alert police or other relevant authority if they have good reason to believe [an] act of serious violence is about to be committed.
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www.csmonitor.com/2007/0521/p99s01-duts.html?s=mesdu
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See also the discussion of unmarked police cars as justifiable deception because the practice is publicized, while entrapment is not deemed justifiable unless the public agrees that this is proper police I find myself genuinely puzzled as to why informants are thought to be morally acceptable, while bugs are not.
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www.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/cje/html/sample1.html
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