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.
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. Confidential informants are one of those things that seem to lurk around in the underground of criminal activity.
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