This is an opinion column. “I’m shocked, shocked to find that paying informants is going on in here.” The Department of Retaliatory Injustice and its FBI sidekicks were about as shocked, shocked that ...

A report found the New Bedford Police Department relies on criminally active confidential informants for drug busts. The city commissioned the report following a Boston Globe series that investigated ...

A series of internal Chattanooga police documents highlight issues the department has faced with its use of informants, from officers overpaying them to submitting false reports, raising questions ...

A deadly no-knock raid in Houston last month exemplifies the deadly consequences of no-knock raids and the use of confidential informants — particularly when they’re the figments of a police officer’s ...

To take down secretive drug dealing operations in the Lehigh Valley, police usually get help from someone on the inside. Confidential informants — who trade information about others in exchange for a ...

Federal civil rights officials have closed the book on their years-long probe into the Orange County Sheriff’s Department’s former practice of illegally using jailhouse informants to gather ...

The Orange County Sheriff’s Department has reached an agreement with the U.S. Justice Department to end a years-long investigation into the systemic misuse of jailhouse informants, federal authorities ...

Dozens of Massachusetts agencies — including the police department in Brockton, one of the state’s largest cities — have no policy governing the use of informants, a fact that one criminal justice ...

The Trump Justice Department announced the indictment on Tuesday of a prominent US civil rights organization over its use of donor money to pay confidential informants in extremist groups. Acting ...