Confidential Informants A Closer Look at Police Policy
While confidential informants (CI’s) can play a crucial role in police investigations, they also have the potential to cause great harm if they are dishonest. The process by which police agencies qualify a CI to work and the strength
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Series Editor M.R. Haberfeld City University of New York John Jay College Criminal Justice New York, NY, USA
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Jon Shane
Confidential Informants A Closer Look at Police Policy
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Jon Shane John Jay College of Criminal Justice New York USA
ISSN 2192-8533 ISSN 2192-8541 (electonic) SpringerBriefs in Criminology ISBN 978-3-319-22252-3 (eBook) ISBN 978-3-319-22251-6 DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-22252-3 Library of Congress Control Number: 2015950751 Springer Cham Heidelberg New York Dordrecht London © The Author 2016 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are reserved by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. Printed on acid-free paper Springer International Publishing AG Switzerland is part of Springer Science+Business Media (www.springer.com)
Foreword I
Informants play an undeniably large role in current law enforcement, contributing to the investigation and prosecution of a wide variety of crimes. For example, research suggests that while the overall use of warrants has declined considerably, significant numbers of search warrants are still based on information from confidential informants (CIs). Yet, there has been relatively little focus on CI usage in the recent literature in law, criminal justice, and policing. The inadequacy of the current literature is significant given the long-standing and serious problems of CI abuses. CIs have lied to police and fabricated evidence, leading to conviction of innocent people. CIs have used their relationship with police to continue their own criminal activities with impunity, harming individual victims and larger communities. Police officers have even been known to fabricate the existence of or information from CIs to further their investigations. CI abuses therefore undercut both the accuracy of police investigations and community trust in police and the criminal justice system as a whole. I have attempted to fill some of the gap in the legal literature by focusing on improving judici
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