Informants: Resources for a Snitch Culture
Cooperating Witness Issues
SNITCH: How Informants Have Become A Key Part
Of Prosecutorial Strategy In The Drug War; from PBS
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In The News
Rachel's
Law On Confidential Informants Takes Effect Wednesday;
from Tampa Tribune (FL), 6/30/09
DEA
Agent Lee Lucas Indicted On Perjury, Civil Rights Charges; Pleads
Not Guilty; from Plain Dealer (OH), 5/14/09
Fla.
Gov. Signs Bill Named After Slain Informant Rachel Hoffman;
from Associated Press (US), 5/10/09
Police
Department's Reliance On Informants Has Risks; from Philadelphia
Inquirer (PA), 4/28/09
Wanted:
Snitches For Hire; from Denver Post (CO), 3/28/09
Cop
Added Insult To Injury, She Says; from Philadelphia
Daily News (PA), 2/23/09
Attorney
Stings 30 Defendants; from Akron Beacon Journal
(OH), 1/25/09
Video: Deadly Dealing -- The Rachel Hoffman Story,
from NBC Dateline (US), 1/23/09
Buying
Gun Was Hoffman's Idea; from Tallahassee Democrat
(FL), 11/2/08
The
Left Turn Rachel Hoffman Didn't Make; from Tallahassee
Democrat (FL), 10/5/08
Informant
Might Have Stood Among Gun Safety Activists; from Washington
Post (DC), 9/28/08
1
Fired, 4 Suspended In Botched Drug Sting; from Tallahassee
Democrat (FL), 9/26/08
Did Police
Misconduct Lead To Another Fatal Marijuana Raid? from
Reason Magazine (US), 9/25/08
Meggs
Says He Won't Prosecute DEA Cases; from Tallahassee
Democrat (FL), 8/8/08
United
States Sentencing Commission Symposium On Alternatives To Incarceration;
from Federal Public Defenders (OR), June 2008 (pdf)
US Leads
World In Substance Abuse, WHO Finds; from Reuters
(US), 7/1/08 -- More
Studies and Reports
The Rat Trap;
from In These Times (US), 7/30/08
Video: Rachel Hoffman - Tragic Choice Results In Death;
from ABC News 20/20, 7/25/08
National
Media Interest 'Intense' Over Hoffman Case; from Tallahassee
Democrat (FL), 7/20/08
Maryland
State Police Infiltrated Groups Opposed to War and the Death
Penalty; from The Progressive (US), 7/17/08
Friends
Provide A Glimpse Into [Rachel] Hoffman's Final Night;
from Tallahassee Democrat (FL), 7/13/08
To Snitch
Or Not To Snitch? That is the Unanswered Question; from
EURweb.com
(US), 7/7/08
Police: Student
Lured To Arrest By Principal; from Concord Monitor
(NH), 4/17/08
OpEd:
Rachel's Law Offers Plenty To Consider; from Tallahassee
Democrat (FL), 5/31/08
Rachel Hoffman:
A Drug Policy Parable; from New Republic (US),
5/23/08
Moles
Wanted; from City Pages (MN), 5/21/08
Untrained
Informers Needed, Police Say; from St. Petersburg
Times (FL), 5/18/08
Hoffman
Case Is Latest In National Debate Over Confidential Informants;
from Tallahassee Democrat (FL), 5/17/08
Slain
Woman's Friends, Supporters Protest Police Departments;
from Tallahassee Democrat (FL), 5/15/08
Death
Raises Questions On Use Of Informants; from The Ledger
(FL), 5/13/08
Informer's
Death In Tallahassee Brings Speculation To Clearwater;
from St. Petersburg Times (FL), 5/12/08
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Resources
Tools For Lawyers: Resources For Tackling
Informants In Court; from The ACLU Informant Project
eBook: Bridging
The Gap -- Modern Day Democratic Surveillance Societies;
by GmB Bailey (pdf)
The Snitching Project; from Law
and Society Week (US), Dec 2007
Video: U.S. House Committee Holds Hearing on Informant
Abuses; from Judiciary Committee of the US House of Representatives,
7/19/07
Series: Confidential Informants In The Local
Drug War; from Charleston Gazette (NC), May 2007
Use
of Informants: Reports & Recommendations; from The California Commission
on the Fair Administration of Justice, Nov 2006
Report: Beyond Unreliable: How Snitches Contribute to
Wrongful Convictions; by Alexandra Natapoff, Loyola
Law School (CA), June 2006
Additional "Snitch' Resources from Professor
Alexandra Natapoff, Loyola Law School (CA)
Audio: Rat A Tat: Alexandra Natapoff, Associate Professor
at Loyola Law School, and Peter Moskos, Assistant Professor
of Law at John Jay College, discuss snitching and the
criminal justice system; from WNYC Radio, New York City
(mP3 Format)
The
DEA's Payments to Confidential Sources; Audit
Report from Office of the Inspector General, USDOJ, July
2005
The Snitch System: How Incentivised Witnesses
Put 38 Innocent Americans on Death Row; from Northwestern University School of Law,
(IL), 4/25/02
Booklet: The
Snitch System; from The Center on Wrongful Convictions, Northwestern
University School of Law, 2004-05 (PDF Format)
US Department
of Justice (John Ashcroft's) Informant Guidelines,
released 2002 (.pdf)
Book: Snitch Culture - How Citizens Are Turned Into
the Eyes and Ears of the State, by Jum Redden. Available
from Drug Policy Alliance Bookstore
Drug Laws and Snitching; A Primer,
by Eric Sterling, Esq.; from PBS Frontline
Report: Snitching:
The Institutional and Communal Consequences, by Professor
Alexandra Natapoff; from University of Cincinnati Law Review (PDF
Format)
Transcript -- U.S. v. Singleton:
1998/99 10th Circuit Decision & Reversal - Does a
prosecutor offering sentencing relief in exchange for testimony
("incentified witness") constitute bribery? (pdf)
Win
At All Costs: Government Misconduct In The Name Of Expedient
Justice; from Bill Moushey, Pittsburgh Post Gazette
(1998)
Grits
For Breakfast: A Lively Blog of Snitching and Other
Drug War Issues
From The Razor Wire
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Hoffman's
Death Sparks Debate About Informants; from Tallahassee
Democrat (FL), 5/11/08
Guilty Before
Proven Innocent; from Reason Magazine (US), May 2008
Anti-Snitch
Web Site Spurs Questions About Access To Federal Plea Agreements;
from Quad-City Times (IA), 4/26/08
Judge Guts
Latin Kings Case, Scolds Police, FBI; from Tampa Tribune
(FL), 4/8/08
Narcotics
Prosecutor Allowed Lies At Trial, State Says; from Detroit Free Press
(MI), 4/2/08
Column: Time
To Spy On Your Neighbors; from Times-Mail (IN), 3/23/08
Drug
Informant's Allegations Trigger Legal Nightmare At Marin Hall
Of Justice; from Marin Independent Journal (CA), 3/1/08
Complaints
About [DEA] Agent Date To Start Of His Career; from Pittsburgh
Post-Gazette (PA), 2/27/08
A Frame-Up Falls
Apart; from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (PA), 2/24/08
To Snitch
or Not To Snitch: The View From The Other Side; from SF Bay Independent
Media Center (CA), 2/13/08
Big Drug
Case Derailed By Rogue Snitch; from Associated Press
(US), 2/10/08
Struggles
Await 15 Men Freed In Tainted Mansfield Drug Case; from Plain
Dealer (OH), 2/3/08
Officers'
Arrests Put Spotlight On Police Use Of Informants; from New
York Times (NY), 1/27/08
Drugs-For-Information
Scandal Shakes Up New York Police Narcotics Force; from New
York Times (NY), 1/23/08
NYPD Narcotics
Probe Has Compromised More Than 150 Brooklyn Criminal Cases;
from New York Daily News (NY), 1/23/08
Feds
To Release 15 More People In Botched Mansfield Drug Case;
from Plain Dealer (OH), 1/23/08
Mansfield
Woman Free After Drug Conviction Based On Lies; from Plain
Dealer (OH), 1/22/08
'Start
Snitching,' Crime-Hit Communities Urge; from MSNBC
(US), 1/22/08
Wanted: On-Campus
Drug Dealers; from Decatur Daily (AL), 1/5/08
Scared
Silent; from New York Times (NY), 12/30/07
DEA Informant
Jerrell Bray Framed Innocents, Prosecutor Says; from The
Plain Dealer (OH), 12/21/07
The Trouble
With Informants; from TPM Café Book Club (US),
12/10/07
Informant: "I
Am A Hero"; from Atlanta Journal-Constitution
(GA), 11/17/07
Snitching
in the Spotlight: House Committee Holds Hearing on Informant
Abuses; from Drug War Chronicle (US), 8/3/07
[Informant] Garnto
Case Had Profound Impact; from News-Press (FL), 10/1/07
Onetime
Paid Snitch Guilty Of Posing As FBI Agent; from Chicago
Sun-Times (IL), 9/17/07
What Is
A "Snitch"? It Depends On Whom You Ask; from Civil
Liberties In Pinellas (FL), Oct 07
Column: Turns
Out People Do Snitch On Crooks; from Milwaukee Journal
Sentinel (WI), 9/8/07
Stand By Witnesses
Who Stand Up; from Boston Herald (MA), 8/24/07
Drug
Case Hinges On Dubious Informer; from Spokesman-Review
(WA), 8/19/07
The Real
Meaning of 'Snitching'; from Washington Post (DC),
8/19/07
Still The
Same: The FBI In Peace And War; from CounterPunch
(US), 8/18/07
Kathryn
Johnston Paid Price For Police Reliance On Snitches; from
San Francisco Chronicle (CA), 8/16/07
Stop
Abusing Snitchin'; from Reason Magazine (US), 8/15/07
Information
Regarding Congress, Recent Hearing On Informants; from ACLU Drug
Reform Project (US), 8/2/07
US
Probe Puts Cleveland DEA Agent's Work Under Scrutiny; from
The Plain Dealer (OH), 7/29/07
'Stop
Snitching' Group Hoping To Clarify Message; from NBC Action
News, Kansas City (MO), 7/30/07
Freaked
Out Feds Indict Pair For Posting Flyers Naming Snitch; from
Drug War Chronicle (US), 7/27/07
Funding
Rules Encourage Cops To Arrest Small-Time Criminals; from
EYE (US), 7/19/07
Civil
Rights Advocates, Members of Congress to Speak Out Against the
Dangers of the Informant System; from ACLU Washington
DC, 7/19/07
Informant
Urged Suspect To Sell Him More Drugs; from Tampa Tribune
(FL), 7/12/07
Column:
`Stop Snitching' Campaign Runs Deeper Than Most Think; from
San Jose Mercury News (CA), 7/5/07
Concerned
Citizen, Witness, Or Snitch? from Buzzle.com (US Web),
3/15/07
Column:
The Problems Behind The Culture Of 'Stop Snitching";
from Houston Chronicle (TX), 6/10/07
Stop
Snitching: Medical Pot Activists Haze The Traitors Who Ratted
Out Ed Rosenthal; from SF Weekly (CA), 6/6/07
[LTE] Stop
Snitchin' Movement; from Atlanta Journal-Constitution
(GA), 6/3/07
Neo-Nazi Rally
Was Organized By FBI Informant; from Orlando Sentinel
(FL), 2/16/07
Web Sites Expose
Informants, and Justice Dept. Raises Flag; from New York
Times (NY), 5/22/07
Propaganda, Pimping
Or Sloppy Journalism? from Ft. Wayne African-American
Woman (US Blog), 5/8/07
Drugs Snitch
Wants To Tell All In DC; from Atlanta Journal-Constitution
(GA), 5/3/07
Open Letter:
You Screwed Up the "Snitch" Story, Anderson Cooper;
from Drug
War Chronicle (US), 4/27/07
CNN And
60 Minutes On Stop Snitching; from Nora Callahan's Blog (US), 4/27/07
The Story
Of A Snitch; from Atlantic Monthly (US), 4/1/07
Robbery Suspect
Says The DEA Made Him Do It; from New York Times (NY),
3/19/07
Snitches:
Death Under Cover; from Arkansas Times (AR), 2/28/07
13
Cases Collapse After Disclosure Of Informant Offenses; from
Washington Post (DC), 2/11/07
A Snitch
In Time; from Metro Weekly (CA), 9/4/03
An Afghan's
Path From Ally Of U.S. To Drug Suspect; from New York Times
(NY), 2/2/04
Student Uses
Web To Expose Undercover Agents; from Ka Leo O Hawaii
(HI Edu), 12/6/06
The House
Of Death; from The Observer (UK), 12/3/06
Judges Fear
Dangers Of Online 'Rat' Database; from Stamford Advocate
(CT), 11/30/06
Limited
Use Of Jail Informants Urged; from Los Angeles Times
(CA), 11/22/06
California
Reconsiders Snitching; from San Francisco Chronicle
(CA), 11/19/06
Cartel
Figure Lashes Out; from Dallas Morning News (TX),
10/15/06
Schools
To Pay Crime Tipsters; from Commercial Appeal (TN),
9/19/06
Police
Agreed To Pay $1 Million To Angels Informer, Trial Told;
from Vancouver Sun (CN BC), 9/13/06
Police Informant
Testifies In Marijuana Grow Case; from Tampa Tribune
(FL), 8/17/06
Thank You
For Not Snitching; from San Antonio Current (TX),
8/15/06
Damned If
You Do. Damned If You Don't; from PopMatters.com (US Web),
2/24/06
Methods Questioned
In Investigation Leading Up To Sears Tower Arrests; from Raw
Story.com (US), 6/29/06
Bait And
Snitch: The High Cost Of Snitching For Law Enforcement; from
Slate.com (US Web), 12/12/05
Snitch Testimony
On Trial; from The Advertiser (LA), 3/30/06
Anti-Snitch
Campaign Riles Police, Prosecutors; from USA Today (US),
3/29/06
The Informant,
The Lies, The Injustice - And A Life Lost; from Philadelphia
Daily News (PA), 3/24/06
Drug Money Wins
Olympics; from Chicago Defender (IL), 3/13/06
Police Defend
Drug Sting At School As A Deterrent; from Press-Enterprise
(CA), 3/6/06
Federal
Court Records Being Kept Secret; from Associated Press
(NC), 3/5/06
Drug Informant
Accused In Deaths To Be Extradited; from Dallas Morning News
(TX), 3/3/06
Store Clerk
Meth Sting Challenged as Misguided, Racist; from The NewStandard
(US), 2/24/06
Turning In
Parents Takes 'Guts'; from Kentucky Post (KY), 2/7/06
Community
Protests Meth Prosecution Of Indian Store Owners
T-Shirts
Illustrate Divide; from San Francisco Chronicle (CA),
1/29/06
LA Jail
Inmate Murdered Because Of Misunderstanding; from Associated
Press, 12/8/05
Feds to Fund
Controversial School Surveillance; from The NewStandard
(US), 11/27/05
Snagging
A Rogue Snitch; from Los Angeles Times (CA), 12/2/05
Free Clarence
Aaron; from San Francisco Chronicle (CA), 11/25/05
Snitching
On The Snitches; from San Antonio Current (TX), 11/3/05
'Stop Snitchin'
Shirts Stopping Criminal Trials; from Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
(PA), 10/18/05
T-Shirts
Warn Off Those Who 'Snitch'; from Wichita Eagle (KS),
8/14/05
Cultural
Differences Complicate A Georgia Drug Sting Operation; from New
York Times (NY), 8/4/05
Police Explorers
Used In Drug Sting At Barlow High School; from Connecticut
Post (CT), 6/29/05
Jailed Informants
Spark Legal Debate; from The Miami Herald (FL), 5/31/05
I'm Telling
... And Getting Paid For It; from The Beacon (PA Edu),
4/25/05
Decision To
Release Jailhouse Snitch Backfires; from The Tribune Review
(PA), 4/17/05
Students Paid
For Tattling On Peers; from USA Today (US), 4/17/05
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