An investigation into how the use of informants, has become a lynchpin in prosecutorial strategy in fighting drugs and the war on drugs. This program focuses on snitches or informers who acted as drug informants to get a reduced sentence. ... Pro/Con: Snitches & Mandatory Minimums...
www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/snitch/ www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/snitch/
Both web sites provide information, including photographs, about undercover law enforcement officers and "confidential informants," or snitches. And while law enforcement sources have pronounced themselves outraged, it all appears perfectly legal.
stopthedrugwar.org/chronicle/351/names.shtml
In some cases, snitches or informants come forward voluntarily, often seeking deals or special treatment. But sometimes law enforcement officials seek out snitches and give them extensive background on cases — essentially feeding them the information they need to provide false testimony.
www.innocenceproject.org/understand/Snitches-Informants... www.innocenceproject.org/understand/Snitches-Informants.php
category: snitches/informants ... Natapoff, a professor at Loyola Law School in L.A., is one of the country's leading experts on the role of snitches and informants in the criminal justice system and I've linked to her research and commentary in this space plenty of times in the past.
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Specifically, the measures informants reach when their freedom's at stake. ... All the bravado and thuggish attitudes is just for show because when these so-called gangstas get behind closed doors they are snitches on whoever and whatever, fabricating and lying on people. That is the truth of American Justice and Ethan shows...
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Do you agree that criminal Informants are cut from an untrustworthy cloth. ... Who's A Rat - Largest Online Database of Informants and Agents Worldwide! ... Add a New Informants Profile...
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Police Decry Web Site on Informants ; Nov 30, 2006 ; By MATT APUZZO ; WASHINGTON (AP) - Police and prosecutors are worried that a Web site claiming to identify more than 4,000 informants and undercover agents will cripple investigations and hang targets on witnesses.
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Snitch Blog: A Comprehensive Resource On Criminal Informants, hosted by Layola Law Professor Alexandra Natapoff The Informants Are Watching Us ... But Who's Watching the Informants? from ACLU Drug Policy Reform Project (US), 11/1/07 ... Wanted: Snitches For Hire; from Denver Post (CO), 3/28/09...
www.november.org/Snitch/index.html www.november.org/Snitch/index.html
In the past - in the form of undercover agents but today more commonly with former friends who have "turned", "rolled over" and become "informants" and "snitches" - such police 'friends' set up drug buys, and set off signals to police.
www.november.org/razorwire/rzold/23/23015.html
Yet in the ever-expanding brotherhood of CIs -- lawspeak for confidential informants -- tales of sweet deals for bad guys with worse intent are fairly commonplace. ... "They are many more informants than ever before," said Gerry Lefcourt of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers. "They cut deals to...
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