United Liberty

If you are not familiar with the Cheye Calvo story, please take some time to familiarize yourself with it here, here, and here.

Periodically I come across a horrific story about some lowlife who is trying to save his (or her) ass, so he becomes an informant for the police.  He feeds information, usually about drugs or drug-related activity, and the police act on this info, with no guarantee of it’s veracity.  This informant is not a police officer, nor does he have any training to determine illegal activity.  He is not accountable to any authority, and for his “protection” his identity is rarely revealed.  With the promise of a more lenient or nonexistent punishment, what motive does the informant have to tell the truth?  The police then use this sketchy information to obtain warrants, specifically no-knock warrants, to search and seize what they have been told is illicit material.