“Confidential informants are crucial to many law enforcement investigations and are especially essential in the field of narcotics investigations. Informants can provide specific information that is simply not available from other sources. However, the informants are often criminals themselves; if not properly managed, they can render a law enforcement investigation useless, destroy an agency’s credibility, and even endanger officers’ lives. To use confidential informants successfully, agencies must develop formal and sound informant control procedures” http://www.policechiefmagazine.org/magazine/index.cfm?fuseaction=display_arch&article_id=1210&issue_id=62007
For my interview, I spoke with a police officer whose name I was told not to reveal. We talked about who the informants are, the use of informants, type of informants, and what they stand for.
Informants are people who provide information of an investigative nature to law enforcement. They can be anyone from your regular, average citizen, fellow law enforcement officers, mentally ill people, and criminals and their associates....
What the author Elliot Spector concluded on the topic of Should Police Officers Who Lie Be Terminated as a Matter of Public Policy, is that there should be policies that are constantly reminded to the police officers. Ensure that the departments have the Honest Policy in place between the officers and the department. Mr. Spector, indicates that this topic will continued to be discussed because the departments need to interact with the Honesty Policy and Code of Conduct. The department needs to ensure that all the officers have a perfect understanding of the repercussions that can occur for the department and themselves when an officer has a record of lying. The most important aspect that Mr. Elliot makes
For example, in his article “Fighting Police Corruption”, Krauss states, “The 911 call could hardly have been more routine. A man wearing a denim jacket and fatigue pants was reported to be selling drugs outside a housing project in southern Brooklyn. Two plainclothes officers responded to the call on a mild night last month, frisked the man and found $400 under the seat of his bicycle. But finding no drugs, the police let him go. The officers were unaware that they had just taken "a walk on the dark side": police talk for an Internal Affairs Bureau sting. The "drug dealer" was actually an undercover officer wired for sound, and the interchange was videotaped from a van parked a block away to see if the officers would rough up the supposed dealer or steal his money. These officers did neither”. Sting operations like this one are a central part of the Police Department 's efforts to overcome the damaging corruption scandals that engulfed the 75Th Precinct in NY between 1986 and
In a cooperation agreement with prosecutors, the former NYPD detective’s bombshell testimony, described in detail the police culture of the Brooklyn South and Queens
I think this book should be required reading for any officer who wants to enforce illegal narcotics. It is an eye opening real account and both police supporters and critics have a lot to learn from Peter Moskos. The first step to healing our modern day police/public relation divide is ending this drug war and failed
In 2005 NYPD Detective, first grade, James E. Griffith called internal affairs to report he was being pressured by a fellow officer to lie and take the blame during an internal inquiry for the mishandling of a homicide investigation by his unit (Goldstein, 2012). Another detective and union official claimed in his deposition that Griffin was a rat because he went to internal affairs instead of the union (Marzulli, 2013). According to the United States District Court Eastern District of New York’s memorandum of decision the retaliation was immediate, included adverse personnel actions and continued though out his career in different units until Detective Griffith was effectively forced to retire due to the harassment in 2009 (James Griffin v. the City of New York, n.d.). Griffin eventually filed a legal sit against The City of New York, the NYPD and two of the officers involved individually. This case study will analyze the incident, whistleblower laws and the ethical challenges involved.
For years police corruption has been a major problem in American society but where is the line between moral and unethical police corruption, many modern movies address this vary issue. Some films portray how types of police corruption can have a positive influence on society, while others show the dark side of police corruption. Many law enforcement agents join the criminal justice with the basic idea of “justice for all,” however, most of them do not realize that the nice guy doesn’t always win. Even though there are vast amounts of movies which specifically address police corruption we will use three main movies for our argument today, mostly LA Confidential, however, also Training Day.
On November 3, 2006 the DEA received a crime-stoppers tip that Joelis Jardines’s home was being used to grow cannabis. On December 6, 2006 two DEA agents took a drug dog, Franky, without a warrant to the Jardines home and walked onto the front porch where Franky signaled narcotics. The DEA agents then obtained a warrant based on the evidence that Franky detected drugs on the Jardines
...t lead whereas officers can obtain information is from informants, most times when informants know they can get some kind of deal from the police they will answer question about who may be involved in all sought of crimes and that is including about who steal cars (Hess & Orthmann, 2010).
Martin, Rich. "Police Corruption: An Analytical Look into Police Ethics." The FBI Enforcement Bulletin May 2011: 11+. Academic OneFile. Web. 9 Feb. 2015.
FBI agents are special agents who can understand the minds of criminals and the psychotic and save people who are endangered by them. They are a higher rank than a police officer and deal with serial killers. FBI agents keep streets clean of psychopaths who have intentions of hurting others. Special agents are often engaged in secretive operations to observe criminals over time until they have got enough evidence to arrest and prosecute them.
Lorraine Mazerolle, David Soole, Sacha Rombouts Drug Law Enforcement: A Review of the Evaluation Literature Police Quarterly, June 2007; vol. 10, 2: pp. 115-153.
Gina Gallo’s memoir of her time as a police officer follows her story from the police academy to the call that ends her career. She exposes the reader to what it is like to be a police officer through her various calls. Some of hear accounts are heartbreaking dealing with crimes against children,
Organized Crime/Drug Branch, Criminal Investigation Division. An Introduction to Organized Crime in the United State. Washington, D.C.: Government Printing Office, 1993.
It is both a result and a cause of police isolation from the larger society and of police solidarity. Its influence begins early in the new officer’s career when he is told by more experienced officers that the “training given in police academies is irrelevant to ‘real’ police work”. What is relevant, recruits are told, is the experience of senior officers who know the ropes or know how to get around things. Recruits are often told by officers with considerable experience to forget what they learned in the academy and in college and to start learning real police work as soon as they get to their Field Training Officers. Among the first lessons learned are that police officers share secrets among themselves and that those secrets especially when they deal with activities that are questionable in terms of ethics, legality, and departmental policy, are not to be told to others. They also are told that administrators and Internal Affairs officers cannot often be trusted. This emphasis on the police occupational subculture results in many officers regarding themselves as members of a “blue
Entrapment is a very important issue today in criminal justice because of the United States wide use of undercover operations that are meant to evoke victimless offenses as a part of proactive law enforcement. Nevertheless like with other laws entrapment is something that needs to be regulated and a since of fairness should also be installed. Undercover operations are necessary and they have their place in the law enforcement arena however these operations have severe backlashes that causes a potential “drug bust” to turn into an investigation of a detective department when things go wrong. This type of police corruption leads to lost of respect in the community along with trust from the thought of being infiltrated