Spotlight: Snitch City brings listeners inside the clandestine world of police informants through the story of one police department. Investigative reporter Dugan... more
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If you enjoyed Spotlight: Snitch City, you might be interested in the new season of Deep Cover from Pushkin Industries.... more
Reporters Dugan Arnett and Andrew Ryan are back in court to learn the fate of a case that has spanned... more
Two former New Bedford informants tell shocking stories. The first: a woman who didn’t even know she was being used... more
When Frank "Rizzo" Simmons was a big-time drug dealer in New Bedford in the '90s, he went toe-to-toe with a... more
Meet New Bedford’s police chief, Paul Oliveira. He’s had a hand in both of the stories we’ve already heard. And... more
Spotlight reporter Dugan Arnett receives a desperate phone call from an informant who’s now in prison. He says he's afraid... more
On the docks of New Bedford, Massachusetts, whispers about a rogue police officer harassing fishermen and stealing drugs come to... more
In a nation addicted to drugs, police across the country have become addicted to informants. Nowhere is this more apparent... more
In just a few weeks, the Boston Globe’s new podcast will drop. Informants are the nameless, faceless cogs of the... more
Confidential informants are the backbone of America’s war on drugs. But the way police use them has remained almost entirely... more
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