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Re: OT: Saints HC Sean Payton & LB coach accused of stealing team's painkillers (merg
Most of my family are law enforcement members (guess I slipped through the cracks..) and I've found out that informants make better than 90% of the active cases being worked. My dad was an old school Irish state cop...he told me when I was six or seven years old.."I don't care what you do when you grow up but make sure, if you're going to rob, rob big...don't be a coward....and NEVER EVER snitch"...I always wanted to follow in his footsteps, but I got a scholarship to BU for engineering in 69,began playing music and working as a sound engineer and went down a road less traveled. My older brother is a psychologist who works with all the PD in the state and I got cousins by the dozens both male and female that wear the badge (actually five family members). The reason why cops generally hate rats even though they need them and use them continuously, is the rat can screw up a police department to the max...see Serpico. That being said, I have to think an FBI agent, just by his existence, stands outside the rat definition. You have to be so straight to make it as an agent that even your mother isn't safe from prosecution at your hands. That's what I get from this ex-agent's charges. If this makes it to court, I'm sure the lawyers here will attest, FBI ,whether ex or not, make formidable prosecution witnesses.
It's the case itself that is penny ante...this is being played up by the press to generate copy and I think THAT is what saucks.
Most of my family are law enforcement members (guess I slipped through the cracks..) and I've found out that informants make better than 90% of the active cases being worked. My dad was an old school Irish state cop...he told me when I was six or seven years old.."I don't care what you do when you grow up but make sure, if you're going to rob, rob big...don't be a coward....and NEVER EVER snitch"...I always wanted to follow in his footsteps, but I got a scholarship to BU for engineering in 69,began playing music and working as a sound engineer and went down a road less traveled. My older brother is a psychologist who works with all the PD in the state and I got cousins by the dozens both male and female that wear the badge (actually five family members). The reason why cops generally hate rats even though they need them and use them continuously, is the rat can screw up a police department to the max...see Serpico. That being said, I have to think an FBI agent, just by his existence, stands outside the rat definition. You have to be so straight to make it as an agent that even your mother isn't safe from prosecution at your hands. That's what I get from this ex-agent's charges. If this makes it to court, I'm sure the lawyers here will attest, FBI ,whether ex or not, make formidable prosecution witnesses.
It's the case itself that is penny ante...this is being played up by the press to generate copy and I think THAT is what saucks.
