Let me give you some perspective and provide some much needed context, and explain how some investigations work. During my career, I had an opportunity to work with confidential informants. Its a dirty business, and if done correctly it is essential to police work. We would arrest someone for a crime, and then during a secondary debriefing we would provide that criminal an opportunity to cooperate, and provide information about other criminality. They would then be given the opportunity to become a confidential informant. In conjunction with the District Attorneys office, and approved by a Judge we would allow the criminal to work off his time. The criminal would admit their guilt in a process called a proffer, and agree to cooperate with future investigations. The prisoner would then provide information, or participate in drug or gun deals and implicate other associate criminals. They would later testify and help put those other criminals in jail. Sometimes those who became confidential informants put so many other bad guys in jail, they worked off their time, and they became paid cooperating informants. I know of some confidential informants who were so valuable that they worked for years, and made a very good living helping the police make cases against some very bad guys. Al Sharpton is pictured here in an unmistakeable conversation about buying a kilo of pure cocaine for $35,000.00 NOBODY walks away from that type of crime without either going to jail, beating it at a long and expensive trial, or becoming a confidential informant. Despite what he claims, Al Sharpton WAS a confidential informant, and he was admittedly involved in taking down several high profile career criminals. There is NO WAY someone today owes 4.5 million dollars in back taxes and gets a pass. There is no way this man blatantly extorts companies without having some type of value to law enforcement to avoid prosecution. The one thing I used to remind my guys about is that you NEVER fall in love with your confidential informant. They are criminals...and its a dirty business. They are bad guys that are playing both sides of the fence, and they are STILL involved in criminality. You wonder why Al Sharpton isnt being prosecuted for owing millions of dollars in back taxes? I dont wonder at all... and neither does anyone who has done this type of police work. Its disgraceful that he is in our White House, and the NYC Mayors Mansion as a senior advisor on race relations. So I will repeat the same advice I have given on numerous occasions...Mr. President, and Mayor DeBlasio...you DONT fall in love with your Confidential Informants.
Posted on: Tue, 06 Jan 2015 05:23:37 +0000
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