Peter Levitt
Appearances
White Hot Hate: Agent Pale Horse
Season 2, Episode 3: Who’s A Rat Dot Com
You could tell that from listening to the tapes. They would sit in the car and talk late into the evening and really bond and share, you know, stories. And, you know, you can't really just fake that. You know, it was clear to me on some level that Scott did like him, and that's what made the interactions so genuine and authentic that it worked.
White Hot Hate: Agent Pale Horse
Season 2, Episode 3: Who’s A Rat Dot Com
You know, it could. I haven't had that happen where I felt like a cooperator or an undercover was sort of crossing a line. But certainly that could happen.
White Hot Hate: Agent Pale Horse
Season 2, Episode 3: Who’s A Rat Dot Com
I was a federal prosecutor in Boston, otherwise known as an assistant U.S. attorney.
White Hot Hate: Agent Pale Horse
Season 2, Episode 3: Who’s A Rat Dot Com
I was the chief of the organized crime and gang unit, and we focused on everything from transnational criminal organizations to local street gangs that negatively impacted particular communities. The Crips, the Bloods, the Latin Gangs, the Disciples, a variety of street gangs that had varying levels of organization.
White Hot Hate: Agent Pale Horse
Season 2, Episode 3: Who’s A Rat Dot Com
And our focus was on the gangs that typically were engaged in the most violent conduct.
White Hot Hate: Agent Pale Horse
Season 2, Episode 3: Who’s A Rat Dot Com
The tools that a federal prosecutor has in the United States are quite broad. And in that investigation, we used all of them. There are confidential informants. There are cooperating witnesses, there are wiretaps, searches and seizures, pole cameras, trash poles. You have a variety of investigative techniques that you can employ to gather both intelligence and evidence.
White Hot Hate: Agent Pale Horse
Season 2, Episode 3: Who’s A Rat Dot Com
A trash bowl, I mean, it just simply means that when somebody puts their trash out on the sidewalk, they lose their expectation of privacy under the Fourth Amendment. And so one of the sort of investigative techniques is simply to search trash. It's not really to gather evidence. It's more to gather intelligence.
White Hot Hate: Agent Pale Horse
Season 2, Episode 3: Who’s A Rat Dot Com
Okay, they're engaged in drug trafficking. They're engaged in violence. They carry illegal firearms.
White Hot Hate: Agent Pale Horse
Season 2, Episode 3: Who’s A Rat Dot Com
So you've got to hang out where they hang out, and sort of let them come to you, in a sense. It's kind of like a seduction.