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Naval Criminal Investigative Service preparations for an ecstasy sting. In law enforcement, a sting operation is a deceptive operation designed to catch a person attempting to commit a crime.
To go "undercover" (that is, to go on an undercover operation) is to avoid detection by the object of one's observation, and especially to disguise one's own identity (or use an assumed identity) for the purposes of gaining the trust of an individual or organization in order to learn or confirm confidential information, or to gain the trust of ...
In 1993, officer "Otto" Barry Brown went undercover in an investigation in to the Dirty 30. The two-year investigation included sting and surveillance operations. On the day of Sept 28, 1994, 29 police officers were arrested and five of them pled guilty. In total, 33 officers were arrested by the conclusion of the investigation. [5]
This is a list of police television programs. (CBDC noted, cancellations) Dramas involving police procedural work, and private detectives, secret agents, and the justice system have been a mainstay of broadcast television since the early days of broadcasting.
A total of 166 marshals and police officers were involved in the operation, with undercover personnel posing as tuxedo-wearing ushers, cheerleaders, emcees, caterers, mascots, and maintenance staff. The operation has been hailed as one of the largest and most successful mass arrests of fugitives by U.S. law enforcement. [1] [2] [3]
Joseph Dominick Pistone (born September 17, 1939) is an American former FBI agent who worked undercover as Donnie Brasco between September 1976 and July 1981, [nb 1] as part of an infiltration primarily into the Bonanno crime family under the tutelage of Anthony Mirra and later Dominick Napolitano, and to a lesser extent the Colombo crime family, two of the Five Families of the Mafia in New ...
The undercover operative pays the suspect appreciable money for petty tasks, such as counting cash or making deliveries, associated with fictitious criminal activity. As these tasks grow in importance and frequency, the suspect is treated as an "up-and-comer" in a criminal organization .
Shock Video 2: The Show Business of Crime and Punishment aired on HBO on July 15, 1995. Like its predecessor, it is an hour-long program and part of the America Undercover series. [15] [16] It is narrated by Peter Thomas, and focuses on video footage used in criminal trials. It features the graphic footage that is viewed by juries, such as ...