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Nov. 5, 2011

Confidential informants: a clandestine crime-fighting tool

Although it rarely comes to light, criminal informant use is everywhere in the American legal system. By Alexandra Natapoff of Loyola Law School


By Alexandra Natapoff


Alexandra Natapoff, a professor at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, focuses her research and writing on the police use of confidential informants. She runs Snitching.org, a web portal devoted to the topic of confidential informants that includes a blog. She testified at a House Judiciary Committee hearing on confidential informant practices and has provided information to U.S. Representative Stephen F. Lynch (D-MA) on legislation that would r...

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