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Natapoff: Snitching reforms require 'changing the culture of secrecy and deregulation' among law enforcement

Reacting to the Grits post titled "Dallas home invader snitches, walks free, then fingers competitors while starting up new crew," Loyola (CA) law professor Sasha Natapoff wrote on her Snitching Blog:By now the story of criminal informants who continue to commit crimes while working for the government is depressingly familiar news; see, for example, these posts: Killer FBI Informant, and House of Death informant and Committing Crime While Working for the Government. Ongoing crime is an inherent feature of the snitching phenomenon, at least in the U.S. (some countries formally restrict their governments' authority to tolerate informant crime, but the U.S. is not yet one of them.) Accordingly, we need to figure out whether snitching is worth it...continue to full post

Full post as published by Grits for Breakfast on May 11, 2010 (boomark / email).