In just a few weeks, the Boston Globe’s new podcast will drop. Informants are the nameless, faceless cogs of the criminal justice system. And their use is cloaked in near total secrecy. Reporter Dugan Arnett will show how police misconduct and informant abuse have run rampant. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Chapter 1: What are informants in the criminal justice system?
Chapter 2: How do informants manipulate victims?
Chapter 3: What are the implications of informant abuse?
Chapter 4: Why is police misconduct a concern?
so he steals your pills and then when you go to get them back tries to basically turn you into an informant for him yeah that's kind of what he wanted bro he tried to have me sign an informant sheep shit's getting real shit's getting real right now everybody's gonna get shaken down in a drug case
In a nation addicted to drugs, police across the country have become addicted to informants. They're the nameless, faceless cogs of the criminal justice system. Their use has remained almost entirely secret. Until now. Did he try to turn you? Yeah, yeah, he tried to turn all of us. I said, I ain't going nowhere, bro. I got nothing to say to you.
So I could tell you that Dugan Arnett is my informant, but he might not even exist. This is Spotlight, Snitch City, a new investigative series from the Boston Globe. Follow or subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.