AJ 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Whitey Bulger, Dementia
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Informants are people who are not police officers but who assist police by supplying information about illegal activity, posing as buyers in drug trafficking or otherwise. Informants are typically not middle-class, upstanding people: south (2001) lists reasons for informant co-operation, money, revenge, dementia, kicks, attention, repentance, and coercion. Informants themselves have been involved in, or are possibly involved in, criminal activity: police use informants who, while assisting police, often commit crime. In some cases police officers protect the victim from prosecution. Connolly was later convicted and charged with second-degree murder. He allegedly tipped off the criminals about a man who knew about them and was about to give a grand jury proof. They had the guy killed as a result (lush, 2007) The government lost a federal lawsuit from the widow of the slain gunman, and has recently paid . 1 million. "effect" of convicting some suspects justified the "means" of making four innocent people languish in prison.
