Undercover Policing in America
Undercover Policing
First off to define being undercover is disguising one's own identity or using an assumed identity for the purposes of gaining the trust of an individual or organization to learn secret information or to gain the trust of targeted individuals in order to gain information or evidence. Being a undercover officer is a very hard task. You have to surpress your whole identity to fool another person into believe you are someone that your not. It is a very effective method of policing but also very difficult, most well established criminals know how to tell whether or not a officer is infact undercover. Undercover policing helps stop various crimes ranging from the most popular being drug conspiracies, prostitution, gangs, and extremeist groups such as the Al-Queda, neo-nazi’s, The Klu Klux Klan, and other various political groups. Undercover officers or agents gather valuble information effiective enough to convict some of the worlds biggest criminals. These investigations can range from a few hours. Such as “buy and bust” operations where a narc trick drug dealers to sell them drugs and then arrest the offenders on the spot, to long-term deep investigations that take months. These investigations usually bring down gangs and extremist groups such as the Branch Davidians. Undercover officers are impacted greatly by their work. Both pyschologically and physically. In order to pass for a criminal, the officer must psychology become a habitual offender, in both their actions and thoughts. One mistake could jerpordize the whole operation that took many months, even years to build. It is a very stressful job. These agents must become friends and confidants of the criminals they are investigating. They must know in detail about the crimes commited and at times even participate in them. A undercover officer must subside his or her feeling of guilt and morality in order to perform their job effectively. A great example of this is in the following quote
First off to define being undercover is disguising one's own identity or using an assumed identity for the purposes of gaining the trust of an individual or organization to learn secret information or to gain the trust of targeted individuals in order to gain information or evidence. Being a undercover officer is a very hard task. You have to surpress your whole identity to fool another person into believe you are someone that your not. It is a very effective method of policing but also very difficult, most well established criminals know how to tell whether or not a officer is infact undercover. Undercover policing helps stop various crimes ranging from the most popular being drug conspiracies, prostitution, gangs, and extremeist groups such as the Al-Queda, neo-nazi’s, The Klu Klux Klan, and other various political groups. Undercover officers or agents gather valuble information effiective enough to convict some of the worlds biggest criminals. These investigations can range from a few hours. Such as “buy and bust” operations where a narc trick drug dealers to sell them drugs and then arrest the offenders on the spot, to long-term deep investigations that take months. These investigations usually bring down gangs and extremist groups such as the Branch Davidians. Undercover officers are impacted greatly by their work. Both pyschologically and physically. In order to pass for a criminal, the officer must psychology become a habitual offender, in both their actions and thoughts. One mistake could jerpordize the whole operation that took many months, even years to build. It is a very stressful job. These agents must become friends and confidants of the criminals they are investigating. They must know in detail about the crimes commited and at times even participate in them. A undercover officer must subside his or her feeling of guilt and morality in order to perform their job effectively. A great example of this is in the following quote