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Originally Posted by Streck-Fu
This is a frequent issue in current law enforcement with regards to the deployment of SWAT teams. Too often, the informants are themselves drug dealers that are offered lighter sentences for information. Eager to please, too often they make shit up or give bad information. The police department do little to no verification before sending in SWAT....
But then, when the police investigation consists of an officer claiming to smell chemicals consistent with a meth lab, you get incidents like the death of Eugene Mallory..... LINK...Note to police, if you are going to claim he pointed a gun at you in the hallway, don;t shoot him in bed and leave his .22 handgun on the night stand....
See above....low hanging fruit most often produces low hanging fruit....
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That's my point strek, most sources are low hanging fruit. They are the same to bad guys too. That's what makes them good sources, however, good sources aren't born, they are made. They have to be developed. They have to be taught. They have to be tested and backed up with a second or third source. A source is enough to get a warrant, back that up with photos of sales with an estimate of how much they are supplying, get a wire and back it with what they are talking about and bam! You have a case. You use your CI to get places you can't go. This is so basic it hurts to have to write it.
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