{"id":3100,"date":"2009-04-29T07:22:28","date_gmt":"2009-04-29T07:11:31","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-29T07:11:31","slug":"en-US","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3100","title":{"rendered":"News:  CIs at large in Philly"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Philadelphia Daily News: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.philly.com\/philly\/news\/homepage\/43607122.html\">Narc supervisors repeatedly ignored procedures for issuing search warrants<br \/>\n<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>RED FLAGS were everywhere. Something wasn&#8217;t right.<\/p>\n<p>Search-warrant applications read like form letters. A confidential informant made drug buys across the city, sometimes just minutes apart, defying the laws of physics. And narcotics officers worked alone with their informants, violating a Police Department rule.<\/p>\n<p>Yet police brass apparently failed to notice.<\/p>\n<p>Again and again, supervisors in the Philadelphia Police Narcotics Field Unit signed off on cookie-cutter applications for search warrants, which are now the subject of an expanding FBI and police Internal Affairs Bureau investigation.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I think supervisors dropped the ball,&#8221; said David Rudovsky, a prominent civil-rights attorney who specializes in police misconduct cases.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From PoliceOne.com and the Philadelphia Inquirer: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.policeone.com\/news\/1815671-Philly-police-reliance-on-informants-has-risks\/\">Philly police reliance on informants has risks<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>b2evALnk.b2WPAutP <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=3100\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"pingsdone","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3100","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}