Dugan Arnett

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It is shadowy. It is underground. And it's a game to a lot of these police officers. And to win, they have to think like the criminal. And they start acting like the criminal.

It is shadowy. It is underground. And it's a game to a lot of these police officers. And to win, they have to think like the criminal. And they start acting like the criminal.

Epidemic.

Epidemic.

Almost every drug investigation in America is based on a confidential informant. People with their own troubles who see a path forward by telling on someone else. The CI system is based on blind trust and can have deadly consequences. It is shadowy. Things just had gotten to the point of no control. It is underground. The corruption level was just off the hook. It really was.

Almost every drug investigation in America is based on a confidential informant. People with their own troubles who see a path forward by telling on someone else. The CI system is based on blind trust and can have deadly consequences. It is shadowy. Things just had gotten to the point of no control. It is underground. The corruption level was just off the hook. It really was.

I'm Dugan Arnett, an investigative reporter with the Boston Globe Spotlight team. And I'm gonna bring you inside this secret world through the story of one city at the forefront of America's drug war, where the CI system has gone off the rails. Cops think they can get away with anything, okay? Basically, they'll let this disappear if I do something for them. They lie.

I'm Dugan Arnett, an investigative reporter with the Boston Globe Spotlight team. And I'm gonna bring you inside this secret world through the story of one city at the forefront of America's drug war, where the CI system has gone off the rails. Cops think they can get away with anything, okay? Basically, they'll let this disappear if I do something for them. They lie.

They just lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. You look like a drug rep. Like something out of a fucking movie. They're onto you. You better smarten up. I don't want to go to jail. You didn't want to be labeled a rat. Not around here. You're going to hear from an informant betrayed by a police force that promised to keep him safe. We heard you was working with the police. You're going to get stabbed.

They just lie, lie, lie, lie, lie. You look like a drug rep. Like something out of a fucking movie. They're onto you. You better smarten up. I don't want to go to jail. You didn't want to be labeled a rat. Not around here. You're going to hear from an informant betrayed by a police force that promised to keep him safe. We heard you was working with the police. You're going to get stabbed.

A drug dealer who got squeezed by the FBI and asked to snitch on police. So he come over thinking I was going to rap. A cop with mixed loyalties who passed information onto a gang member. You see how that could look like you're just trying to help a friend again? And a veteran officer still on the job, ready to name names. Who else do I have to tell? I call the FBI and they don't follow me back.

A drug dealer who got squeezed by the FBI and asked to snitch on police. So he come over thinking I was going to rap. A cop with mixed loyalties who passed information onto a gang member. You see how that could look like you're just trying to help a friend again? And a veteran officer still on the job, ready to name names. Who else do I have to tell? I call the FBI and they don't follow me back.

And that's just a start. You motherfuckers don't rat on each other. So don't start telling my client what the hell he or she should do. This is Spotlight. Snitch City. An investigative series from the Boston Globe. Coming March 11th.

And that's just a start. You motherfuckers don't rat on each other. So don't start telling my client what the hell he or she should do. This is Spotlight. Snitch City. An investigative series from the Boston Globe. Coming March 11th.

so he steals your pills and then when you go to get them back tries to basically turn you into an informant for him yeah that's kind of what he wanted bro he tried to have me sign an informant sheep shit's getting real shit's getting real right now everybody's gonna get shaken down in a drug case

so he steals your pills and then when you go to get them back tries to basically turn you into an informant for him yeah that's kind of what he wanted bro he tried to have me sign an informant sheep shit's getting real shit's getting real right now everybody's gonna get shaken down in a drug case