Speaking Truth to Power: Confidential Informants and Police Investigations

Domestic drug enforcement takes many forms, from the rural patrol officer who happens upon a small—scale mobile “shake and bake” methamphetamine lab during a routine traffic stop, to the city narcotics detective who initiates a low—level buy—bust operation that nets a few hits of crack cocaine on the street corner, to the local, state, and federal agents working in multiagency task forces that coordinate a sting operation that nets thousands of kilos of near—pure cocaine being transported b...