Criminal informants, usually called “confidential informants” which is an oxymoron if I have ever heard one are glorified criminals. How can the criminal justice system justify a means to an end by giving criminals the opportunity to commit more crimes and the credibility to accuse other people of crimes? It would appear that a criminal will subject himself and others to danger, deceit and even death in order to commit a crime. When an informant is put on the street to carry out a job for the Justice system, does he suddenly become less dangerous and less deceitful?

Deceit is a major characteristic of criminals and is detestable in the eyes of the law, however; the system allows informants to deceive people in order to obtain information that will lead to an arrest. This can be compared to teaching your children not to hit people, however, you as the authoritative figure slap your child because the child hit his sister. This teaches the child nothing, actually; this confuses the child. This calls for a little “practice what you preach.” The informant is punished for “doing a thing” that you are now praising him for. Where is the consistency?

Confidential informants are supposed to be protected by the law. They are protected because if a defendant learns who the informant is; he may want revenge. By the same token, a detective will burn a confidential informant when he is not needed any longer. There is absolutely no consistency using the informant tactic to obtain information that may lead to an arrest. This is a selfish and lazy police tactic.

We entrust law enforcement with our safety, with our lives, however; it is a huge mistake in thinking that we are safe when criminals who have not been reformed are allowed to walk the streets as menaces to society. There may be a handful of descent informants walking the streets but; a handful is not a high enough number to prove a police tactic to be effective. There is nothing effective about a criminal entrusted, credited and glorified to do a detective’s job when he is deceitful and a possible danger.

Does a means to an end include informants committing more crimes and hurting innocent people when they should be in rehabilitation? I do not think that this informant tactic has been taken into consideration thoroughly. It is not fair to society at large to let recidivists run rampant. As a citizen I have a right to say this. As a witness to an informant gone wrong; I have even more of a right to say this because I was able to see first hand, a crooked, maniacal informant at work.

This informant has committed more crimes in more crime categories than anyone I know. He has bragged about being an informant for years stating that the police department is on his payroll and that he has a detective in his pocket. He set up a family friend in front of my family member and the detectives dropped him off at my house while the person who was set up was arrested, booked and thrown in jail. This is a dangerous game.

The informant has been a family friend for approximately eleven years so I can safely say that I have seen him in action. Many people can attest to the facts that this informant is a drug addict; drug dealer who drives on a suspended license while drinking and drugging, robs people and has been arrested for violent crimes. Why is this menace allowed to walk the streets without rehabilitation?

This is not fair to the citizens of this country. In fact, this is a crime against society and if something is not done about this; we can look forward to many innocent people doing time for an informants crime. This already is a reality, however, this reality will get worse. You have to realize that this deception does not stop with the informant and detective. This is a game of deception within the system.

The game of deception within the system extends to attorneys and in fact other representatives have become questionable. I must inform you that an attorney asked me not to share this information. The attorney told me that if this type of information gets out and people know that there is foul play within the system people will panic and he said, “the public does not want to know that they are not safe.”

I am witness to three crooked cases and I have been extremely quite about them because I do not want to alarm the public. Today, you can search the web for anything you are curious about and I was curious about confidential informants so I did a search. I learned that the informant tactic is failing because too many informants are crooked and choose to lie about innocent people to law enforcement. According to some sources; this is becoming an epidemic and needs to be addressed. You should be informed that this is not just a problem with informants but with detectives as well.

According to one source in an article I read; police officers said that a man sold them drugs, however; this man that supposedly sold them drugs was in flight to Chicago at the time. This source also contends that in another case, a man approximately seventy pounds lighter and one foot shorter than the actual offender was blamed for a cocaine buy. In yet another case, a woman was picked out by using a sixth grade picture that was ten years old for selling drugs to a DEA agent (Kroll, 2008).

This same source states that Federal prosecutors did not see the signs. This is pathetic. I want to know that I trust with my life, and the lives of others, that authority figures KNOW the truth or close to it before they file charges against people (Kroll, 2008).

There are several websites available on the web for you to learn alarming information. I am not going to list them in this article. It will take an article of many pages to quote what I have found. There is a website called whosarat.com that you may be interested in reading. I have only pulled up the page and have not read the content yet and I am not suggesting you read it to find the rats. I recommend you read the content and conduct your own research in order for you to also realize that the crooked informant epidemic is a real epidemic.

We are the people and we have a right to protect ourselves and a right to say who we trust to protect us. We are all human and humans run the Criminal Justice System. As humans err, the administrators of justice do as well. Informants are criminals which makes them less than honest and always looking for a way out. It is our duty to investigate this crooked informant epidemic before it spreads world-wide and more innocent people do time for informant crimes.