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Speaking Truth to Power - Confidential Informants and Police Investigations (Hardcover)
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Speaking Truth to Power - Confidential Informants and Police Investigations (Hardcover)
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Domestic drug enforcement takes many forms, from the rural patrol
officer who happens upon a small-scale mobile "shake and bake"
methamphetamine lab during a routine traffic stop, to the city
narcotics detective who initiates a low-level buy-bust operation
that nets a few hits of crack cocaine on the street corner, to the
local, state, and federal agents working in multiagency task forces
that coordinate a sting operation that nets thousands of kilos of
near-pure cocaine being transported by tractor-trailer. Regardless
of the form, there is a high probability that these authorities
have exploited access to known offenders and exerted pressure on
those individuals to gather inside information on illicit drug
sales. These confidential informants provide intelligence on the
inner workings of drug operations in exchange for leniency or
remuneration, providing a relatively cheap source of intelligence
that fuels much of the ongoing war on drugs. In other instances,
law enforcement authorities will reach out to members of the
criminal underworld who are willing to provide valuable
intelligence in exchange for money. Despite the central role of
informants in contemporary police operations, little is known about
the shadowy relationships among law enforcement, snitches, and
offenders. Based on ethnographic fieldwork in the narcotics,
homicide, and street-level vice operations in two major
metropolitan police departments, Speaking Truth to Power takes
readers to the front lines of the war on drugs to unravel this
complex web of information exchange.
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