Speaking Truth to Power: Confidential Informants and Police Investigations

by Dean A. Dabney and Richard Tewksbury

Book Overview

Domestic drug enforcement takes many forms, from the rural patrol officer who happens upon a small-scale mobile "shake and bake" methamphetamine lab during a routine traffic stop, to the city narcotics detective who initiates a low-level buy-bust operation that nets a few hits of crack cocaine on the street corner, to the local, state, and federal agents working in multiagency task forces that coordinate a sting operation that nets thousands of kilos...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520290488
• ISBN13: 9780520290488
• Release Date: August 2016
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"