Undercover operations have been a useful tool for law enforcement for year. Celebrated cases, including the fight against the Mafia depended on infiltration for the eventual success against these criminal enterprises. But, undercover agents working within the Mafia, drug cartels, motorcycle clubs and other organized criminal organizations invariably must in the course of the investigation break the law. This can be a slippery slope, who decides what laws can be broken and what cannot? When undercover agents become heroes of books, movies, and legend, it follows that breaking the law in the name of the law is not only permitted, it is encouraged. Beat cops come to believe that they can do the same thing, after all they are the good guys and fighting crime justifies bending a few rules.
Prosecutors feed the flames because they came out of Law School with the attitude that they are in a fight to the death with the defense counsels and the outcome is all that counts. Justice was left behind in first year of law school.
The only thing that is standing in the way of this culture taking over our justice system is the rights of defendants to see the evidence to be presented in court, even those defendants who are clearly guilty. I think this is why the prosecutor has developed his strategy. He wants to wear people down with delay, until defendants will take a plea and avoid a trial. The real targets are probably not the murderers, even if they every know for sure who they might be. The targets are the leadership of the Bandidos and the Cossacks because taking them down takes down these two organizations. All of the other 100 plus defendants are just collateral damage.
” All of the other 100 plus defendants are just collateral damage.”
If you don’t want to be ‘collateral damage’ don’t go to gang fights wearing colors.