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In his classic 1967 work "Organizational Intelligence," Wilensky pointed out that Roosevelt would use one anonymous informant's information to challenge and check another's, putting both on their toes; he recruited strong personalities and structured their work so that clashes would be certain...
In cases in which the police rely on information obtained from an anonymous informant, the police, by hypothesis, cannot obtain further information from the informant regarding the facts and circumstances on which the informant based his conclusion.
Nor is there any basis for assuming that the information provided by an anonymous informant has been obtained in a reliable way.
[n13] The Supreme Court [p244] of Illinois reasoned that Draper involved an informant who had given reliable information on previous occasions, while the honesty and reliability of the anonymous informant in this case were unknown to the Bloomingdale police.
When the police seek a warrant based solely on an anonymous informant's tip, therefore, they are providing the magistrate with all the information on which they have based their conclusion.
That case did not involve an anonymous informant.
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One commentator has suggested that anonymous informants should be treated as presumptively unreliable.
In any event, there certainly is no basis for treating anonymous informants as presumptively reliable.
But Aguilar and Spinelli advance other values which argue for their application even to anonymous informants' tips.
And surely there is even more reason to subject anonymous informants' tips to the tests established by Aguilar and Spinelli.
LaPorte undermines her research with a headachy repetition of anonymous informants ("one insider," "one former executive," "one source").
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