The treatment of informants in the Sopranos and Breaking Bad

[@silentsaints]

last time I was this early Jesus wore shorts

[@cloudbloom]

Was that around the same time that Moses wore short pants?

[@phoenixmodellingphotography]

​@@cloudbloom Eesh what a visual, even the Red Sea will part ways to avoid an old bloke in his undies walking around in public

[@hexagonproductions2019]

@@phoenixmodellingphotographywas that around the time the only shit in the Bible came out pharaoh’s ass?

[@bullywhispers9544]

Thanks for watching! Hope you enjoyed

[@CoreyOfTheCosmos]

A lord and saviour, doesn’t wear shorts!

[@camq-py7bs]

The two officers who found the pizza shop when AJ trashed the school pool did a better job in that one episode than the FBI did the entire series.

[@Evan-qt3ep]

Yup

[@ididntmeantoshootthatvietn5012]

And its the only time in the show where the police used DNA to track someone, but they dont have that technology when Junior puked at a murder scene

[@ndogg20]

The saddest stories of informants getting used was on The Wire. First there was Wallace manipulated into becoming an informant, who gets shot up by his best friends. Next is Randy, also manipulated into informing, once a happy go lucky kid who suffers a fate worse than death, being labeled a snitch and losing everything: his Forster mom and home, all his friends and is beaten into hard core criminal, a sentence handed down by Marlo.

[@bullywhispers9544]

Very true. Thats an entire episode all on its own. Thanks for watching!

[@gioluvs1893]

Bodie was a victim of switching. McNulty pick him up in a God damn cop car.

[@SantomPh]

Bubbles was the only one that played the informer game right. Didnt expect anything big from the police, gave only small bits of info like identities of street bosses and just hung by the side.

[@xlderecklx]

Also, I listened to the adriana la cerva video, the intent to distribute can be as simple as passing a "bump" or a "joint" to your buddy in the same room. It's very loose to get people into plea deals and add more sentences.

[@bullywhispers9544]

Good point. Thanks for watching both!

[@stezzy2.016]

Very wild I’ve always thought that the idea of sharing a joint with a friend making me a big migo cartel kingpin was ridiculous

[@ryankeefe2102]

The feds case on Adriana was paper thin at best but they scared her into snitching

[@earlpipe9713]

@@ryankeefe2102 Yup, they actually played her pretty well by throwing her mind way off kilter, by hitting her with what she thought was her best friend at the time, ending up being a sleazy lowlife fed instead.

[@ststst981]

​@@ryankeefe2102yea and most likely they would not have leaked that her friend was a fed because it would tip off Tony to their tactics and he'd become more paranoid. It was 100% a bluff

[@claytonaut]

that last shot is a masterpiece

[@usasupersoccer]

Pussy was one of Tony Crew's best gangsters, but he lived in one of the worst places. The guy's house was next to a cemetery!

[@juanaceves6363]

He always wanted a house by the ocean, maybe in another life

[@12345678900987659101]

It was very allegorical. Sacred and the propane.

[@SantomPh]

he was always a short term thinker, which is why he never went up the ranks. He was lucky enough to be a senior mobster with no crew.

[@vlad_47]

​@@SantomPhits wierd how he expected a promotion from Tony in S2

[@Argos-xb8ek]

Brp a procescutor outing their informant is the worst thing you can do you are literally getting someone killed

[@jeremyweems4916]

I had a grilled cheese off the radiator for dinner. I wanted a steak, but I compromised.

[@gamemaster2311]

Hank had no business operating with informants or conducting interrogations. He was fucking terrible at rapport, a skill that's vital in securing confessions or information from informants.

[@bullywhispers9544]

100%. Thanks for watching!

[@smellsuperb1]

Hank only knew how to use intimidating bully tactics. He had decent detective skills but atrocious at connecting with literally everybody.

[@ststst981]

Yea it's why he worked well with Gomez. They did a classic good cop bad cop routine, best seen with the Mike interrogation when Gomez steps in and acts as a friend saying Kaylee might be able to keep some money if he helps them out

[@chadd990]

so basically, just don't snitch. Law enforcement doesn't care about you.

[@Sukuna214]

69 says otherwise

[@johnherbert1431]

​@@Sukuna214did you see the vid of him getting stomped in an LA fitness?

[@Sukuna214]

@@johnherbert1431 Did you see how he only got 2 years instead of 30.

[@johnherbert1431]

@@Sukuna214 yeah that's usually what happens to snitch trash. But he doesn't have any protection whatsoever. If he did, he wouldn't have had his shit pushed in by three real Gs

[@kylebradley3]

The problem is, there's always one available. It's inherent with sociopathic behavior, they're all looking out for themselves.

[@BrendanPappas]

Pussy’s death was incredibly tragic not only because of the fact that he flipped for the safety of his family, but also because of how much you knew Tony cared about him. It really was a masterfully huge part of his development throughout the series.

[@BradsGonnaPlay]

“Is it alright that I sit?” That whole scene gave me chills.

[@smavi4133]

Hey Brendan, did that development even really exisht?

[@BrendanPappas]

@@smavi4133 I don’t know, did it?

[@valveezy6672]

@@BrendanPappas over your head

[@BrendanPappas]

@@valveezy6672 ?

[@wyomingptt]

They essentially strong arm people into cooperating and then wring every drop of usefulness out of them until they either make their case or the informant is... of no more use. Same as in the real world, case building comes first then safety of the CI.

[@InsaneCopePosse]

The lawyers are the real idiots because they couod have negotiated to testify and go into witness protection

[@xlderecklx]

Excellent topics, can't wait to see this video!

[@earlpipe9713]

They very much cared about their high level snitches in Boston. They even helped Bulger do hits on dudes that might snitch on him

[@ShellNSMBDS]

People actually spit in Aaron Paul's face for Jesse being a snitch. Real fact.

[@pintolerance785]

And John Lennon was shot by a guy who read a book that was mid at best.

[@TheMaleRei]

There's a reason why *many* celebrities are reluctant to go out into public without some sort of disguise / cover / protection / screen...

[@kingoneil4644]

Phil leotardo spent an undetermined amount of time in an undisclosed location like a man , thats sayin something

[@shionsonozaki5730]

I love that you do sopranos and breaking bad comparison's

[@KittySnicker]

I hated how callous the cops were towards Jesse and Adriana

[@SantomPh]

they were prime informants, so they pumped them till they ran dry, but could replace them with other people.

[@ryankeefe2102]

Seriously though why didn't the feds have a car sitting in front of chris and Adrianas place given chris' volatile nature as well as how dangerous the situation was the feds should've had a car out there

[@BookshelfQBattler]

I mean this is fantasy tv show fbi not real fbi so don’t be too mad at the fbi

[@TheMaleRei]

Well, again, the FBI attitude is about as bad as the mob. "Oh, another informant died? LULZLULZ! We juss' gunna get anuva wun!"

[@xlixity]

Hank was very well ready to let Pinkman die and even saw it as a best scenario. Now it's only my personal experience, but that's how the feds are with their rats; a deas rat means less resources the fed has to waste which means a nicer pat on the back by your boss. Unless of course, they're still needed for testimony.

[@localfatty4364]

Ja’Crispy even made it into the video 😂😂😂

[@jasonbodine6033]

Time index 1:31 was so good that ya had to repeat it as the closing shot of the video. 😎

[@laurenpeterson9510]

Good question

[@Void7.4.14]

Because to be a snitch you pretty much have to be involved in the streets or whatever activities you're ratting on, for most handlers how much they care is directly proportionate to how much value they have to a case with their information.

[@petere.9138]

The most insulting part of the Lynn Delvecchio scandal is the FBI is still protecting him, but an NYPD officer who had zero evidence of any involvement other than being from the same neighborhood as a lot of made guys, was fired the day before his pension was to vest.

[@aggrodkreg4321]

The FBI and NYPD are not the same agency.

[@petere.9138]

@@aggrodkreg4321 Correct. But when they work together with OC Task Forces then they are co-mingled.

[@ProtomanButCallMeBlues]

The law enforcement in Sopranos is incompetent to the point that its a public danger. Informant deaths arent treaded like one offs. The level of danger they put their informants in borders on malicious.

[@gregoryporch8395]

I'd say they don't care the same way Johnny Sack didn't care about Paulie. They're just stream of information and no matter how invaluable the information is they remain on the outside. Your line of secrets getting killed also helps to bury your own.

[@yungsodaman]

Cover Saul's 3 wives

[@TimParker-Chambers]

0:19 'stitches'... 🙈🙈🙈🙈

[@kingkappa9315]

Whatever happened there 🤷‍♂️

[@magicmoonmonke]

You know the FBI loved Curto

[@rman52]

Giacalone's excuse for getting Johnson murdered was pathetic. She was a terrible prosecutor. And she was horribly played by Bracco with infantile dialogue in that amateurish movie getting Gotti.

[@Maxschnitger]

Hank in bb aint a Real hero but he is 100 times more qualified as a federal agent as the FBI schmucks from sopranos. He is Not an Agent who seeks glory or the next promotion. I think that Hank is fully convinced that he does everything in his Power to make this world a better place. He does practuce police brutality but i did not say that his morals are auited for the general public. The FBI agents in the Sopranos Do not really care about crime and the suffering that comes with it, but only there careers. I mean Harris straight up is guilty of conspiracy to murder and coukd be indicted in a Rico case.

[@Maxschnitger]

Sopranos still is way better than bb. I would never disrespect our thing. Anyways at my local supermarket fish is only 4$ a pound. What a great Deal!

[@SantomPh]

Hank is a DEA Agent, his job is to literally stop drugs from entering the USA by any means

[@vlad_47]

​@@SantomPhHis job is also to handle informants under him like Krazy8 and Jesse later unofficially

[@rustyshackleford9588]

No no they do not.

[@PrestonVance-k9v]

watched get gotti because of your last video

[@alextaunton3099]

I've been locked up before, and from personal experience I can say that cops/COs' burn snitches all the time, and often don't respect them, despite relying on them for information. Often I would see someone be promised PC in exchange for them snitching on ppl on their pod, and then deny them PC while laughing about it, knowing that inmate finna be dealt with. Yeah, snitching isn't just looked down upon by criminals, it often isn't that smart to do. In fact, talking to police at all isn't usually a good idea.

[@diego1776]

Good subject for a video greetings from Costa Rica. BW rules

[@smellsuperb1]

Skip Lisp-ari, thank you 😅

[@teebee7769]

It good