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Chapter 1: What are the roles of informants in the drug war?
Snitch, informant, CI. You didn't want to be labeled a rat. Not around here. You live and die in this business on informants and information.
Chapter 2: How do police officers approach their work with informants?
They didn't know what was going on. Nobody did. There's no way they're telling the truth. I am 1,000% sure I am the informant.
Chapter 3: What challenges do informants face in their roles?
It's a game to a lot of these police officers. And to win, they have to think like the criminal. And they start acting like the criminal.
Based upon the advice of my attorneys, I invoke my federal and state constitutional rights to remain silent and decline to answer that question.
He wanted me completely out of the picture because of the stuff that I know. I can't think of any other reason. Speak of the devil, there is.
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