PAYNE SPRINGS, Texas — Arrest documents allege an East Texas police chief and one of her officers used a confidential informant, who was assigned to help police with narcotics investigations, to sell ...
The Globe Spotlight Team’s latest investigation examined widespread misconduct in how police across Massachusetts use — and exploit — confidential informants to fight the war on drugs. The multipart ...
A report found the New Bedford Police Department relies on criminally active confidential informants for drug busts. The city commissioned the report following a Boston Globe series that investigated ...
The Boston Globe: Confidential informants: The wild west of Massachusetts law enforcement
Aclu.org: The Use of 'Confidential Informants' Can Lead to Unnecessary and Excessive Police Violence
A deadly no-knock raid in Houston last month exemplifies the deadly consequences of no-knock raids and the use of confidential informants — particularly when they’re the figments of a police officer’s ...
The Use of 'Confidential Informants' Can Lead to Unnecessary and Excessive Police Violence
The Boston Globe: Why are cops addicted to confidential informants? The Globe investigates Snitch City.
When it comes to the war on drugs, you could say the police are addicted to confidential informants. That’s the conclusion of a new Boston Globe Spotlight investigation into the pervasive and shadowy ...
Why are cops addicted to confidential informants? The Globe investigates Snitch City.
KEOKUK, Iowa (KWQC) - A Keokuk man is charged after police said he sold drugs to a confidential informant. Nathan Kull, 47, was arrested on Sunday and charged with felony possession of a controlled ...