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News: CIs at large in Philly

By John Wesley Hall, Jr.

Philadelphia Daily News: Narc supervisors repeatedly ignored procedures for issuing search warrants : RED FLAGS were everywhere. Something wasn't right. Search-warrant applications read like form letters. A confidential informant made drug buys across the city, sometimes just minutes apart, defying the laws of physics. And narcotics officers worked alone with their informants, violating a Police Department rule. Yet police brass apparently failed to notice. Again and again, supervisors in the Philadelphia Police Narcotics Field Unit signed off on cookie-cutter applications for search warrants, which are now the subject of an expanding FBI and police Internal Affairs Bureau investigation. "I think supervisors dropped the ball," said David Rudovsky, a prominent civil-rights attorney who specializes in police misconduct cases...continue to full post

Full post as published by Fourth Amendment on April 29, 2009 (boomark / email).