How can an informant assist law enforcement officials?What services can informants provide investigators?

What will be an ideal response?


Make observations in areas where strangers would be suspect. Furnish information from a source not readily available to the investigator. Conduct "controlled" undercover transactions or introduce undercover agents to criminal suspects. Collect intelligence information (for example, determine street prices of drugs and identify suspects, their associates, and their residences).

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According to Chapter 10, Since 1997, what state has been engaged in the largest expansion of prison-based treatment of its kind in the nation and perhaps even the world?

A) Texas B) North Carolina C) Ohio D) New Jersey E) California

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Federal and state judges are selected in essentially the same manner.

Answer the following statement true (T) or false (F)

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Which one of the following is NOT considered a harmful legal product (HLP)?

a. Nicotine b. Glue c. Alcohol d. Caffeine

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It is likely that the universalistic perspective is tied to

A) The traditional, organizational factors that have pervaded most police agencies. B) The fact that most police officers have been white males C) The initial rise of law enforcement in the United States in the "Wild West" D) The influence of political factors on law enforcement agencies

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