Roe
Eng. 061
August 3, 2015
Helping Hand
How much trouble would someone have to be to accept becoming a Confidential Informant? Well, Andrew Sadek was one of many who agreed to become one. Sadek was a great college student, who attended North Dakota, without involving himself in any trouble. It wasn’t till November 2013, when he was arrested for selling $80 worth of marijuana. Sadek was facing at least 41 years in prison according to the law in North Dakota, but cops offered him a deal he couldn’t resist—to become a Confidential drug Informant. Becoming a Confidential Informant became a problem when Andrew Sadek was murdered. Despite all that, police should keep using college students as Confidential Informants. http://elitedaily.com/news/war-on-drugs-needs-to-go/1136626/ Confidential Informants are usually most helpful in small towns because none of the suspects would ever suspect from someone in town to be under cover. Since the informants are well known around the small town and people know that they do not work for the cops, there is no way of people ever knowing that they are confidential informants. If the police themselves would try to go out there and pretend to be under cover, they would be spotted out right away, and the entire mission would just crumble. Confidential informants are great at getting information cops cannot get. They are great for under cover cases. http://www.wbiw.com/local/archive/2015/08/bedford-man-sentenced-to-12-years-in-prison-on-meth-charges.php Confidential informants are grantee to be save 24/7. They are being protected while they are under cover; they put their life to risk but they know nothing bad will happen.
Confidential informants are helpful to the police because they can get the inside scoop of every story. For example, in the case of Dalia Dippolito, who was convicted to 1st degree murder, was caught by a confidential informant. Dalia had hired a hit man to kill her husband, Michael