Confidential Informants, Part 2.

Format:

Video

Series:

Academic Video Online

60 Minutes

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

University of Mississippi.

Law Enforcement.

Colleges and universities.

Students.

Law enforcement.

Drug dealers.

Illegal drugs.

Local Subjects:

University of Mississippi.

Law Enforcement.

Colleges and universities.

Students.

Law enforcement.

Drug dealers.

Illegal drugs.

Genre:

News story

Physical Description:

1 online resource (13 minutes)

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS), 2015.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

video file

Summary:

An investigation into police coercing young people, many of them college students, to become confidential informants (CI) to help combat the war on drugs. Young people who are caught selling small amounts of marijuana are being recruited to become CI's by law enforcement. As a CI, they are placed in high-risk situations with no training while wearing a wire to make undercover drug buys in exchange for having their charges reduced or dropped altogether. Being a CI lead to the murder of Rachel Hoffman, and is questioned in Andrew Sadek's death, which is still an open investigation. Metro Narcotics, a drug task force close to the University of Mississippi (Ole Miss) in Oxford was exposed for threatening CI's and giving CI's incentives to entrap other students. Metro Narcotics and Ole Miss declined an interview. (Includes recordings of Keith Davis, head of the Metro Narcotics Unit, who has since resigned.) Includes interviews with: Jason Weber, narcotics officer and chief of a four-county drug task force in eastern North Dakota and western Minnesota; Tammy and John Sadek, Andrew Sadek's parents; Lance Block, attorney; Brian Sallee, undercover narcotics officer; Ken Coghlan, defense attorney; and Greg and Bob (unidentified Ole Miss students and former CI's who agreed to speak in disguise).

Notes:

Title from resource description page (viewed December 11, 2023).