The problem is that there is no one to police the police. Law enforcement may keep threatening jail or charges unless you work “one more deal” for them. If you are working as a CI, you may be wondering, how many buys are “enough” to work off my charges? This is a common issue people face when working as CI’s. The CI may be working several buy busts before the CI’s work is finished with the police. The CI is not really taken to jail or if the CI is taken to jail, the CI is released later.
Sometimes the police will even arrest the CI to make the whole operation look like the CI wasn’t working as a snitch. Once you sell to the CI, you are busted/arrested by the police (typically undercover federal or state agents and/or other law enforcement).
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The money may not even be marked, but the police have made a copy of the serial numbers on the cash bills. You will not be able to notice the marks. The CI will likely be paying with marked money. The CI is searched before and after the deal by the police. There may be cameras in the location that the deal takes place. And the devices are constantly evolving and improving. The equipment has evolved with technology and the cameras can be as simple as a pair of glasses, a keychain, a button on a shirt, etc. It is not like the old school movies where you can see a “wire” taped under someone’s shirt. The recording devices used have become very sophisticated and are virtually undetectable. The CI may be wearing a wire or recording device. All of this is a disguise so that you cannot know the police are watching. Typically the police are in plain clothes in an undercover vehicle. The CI meets you at a certain place and unknown to you, the police are watching the whole deal. The CI knows he/she is working as a snitch, but you do not. The CI will contact you or maybe you contact the CI. The CI may do “controlled buys.” This means that the CI will have an agreement with the police.
The CI is assigned a CI number and agrees to provide information about your case to the police. The CI may be charged with a serious drug (or other) criminal offense. The Confidential Informant may be a drug dealer, a significant other, someone you are friends with, someone that works for you, someone that you work for, etc. What do confidential informants do?ĬI’s are regular folks that provide law enforcement with confidential, possibly damning, information against you. The police can use information gained from the CI about you that the Government can use when prosecuting your case. In other words, the police claim that your charge will be lessened or maybe even go away if you work as a snitch for the police. A confidential informant (“CI”) is someone that is typically facing criminal charges and law enforcement convinces the CI to “work off” their criminal charges. What is a confidential informant?Ĭonfidential informants aren’t the same as anonymous sources or tipsters. The pros and cons of being a confidential informant.Ĭommon Questions About Confidential Informants: 1.How a confidential informant can hurt your case and.Whether and when the identity of a confidential informant has to be disclosed.If a confidential informant can be used against you.When police are working with people who they are locking up or threatening to lock up, you may start to wonder if the police are looking out for “the Government’s” confidential informants, or is their first priority obtaining convictions … and if so, how much does the Government really care about the safety and welfare of their Confidential Informants? The idea of the police working with someone who is facing criminal charges is a very sketchy concept to some, but a reality in the criminal justice system. “Police Snitches,” RevealedĬonfidential informants are one of those things that seem to lurk around in the underground of criminal activity. Categories: Criminal Defense Confidential Informants, a.k.a.
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