Informants can provide specific information that is simply not available from other sources. However, the informants are often criminals themselves. If not properly managed, they can render a law enforcement investigation useless, destroy an agency's credibility, and even endanger officers lives. Entrapment happens when police officers coerce or induce someone into committing a crime. A typical entrapment scenario arises when law enforcement officers use coercion and other overbearing tactics to induce someone to commit a crime. When entrapment is in use as a defensive strategy, it is usually because the police officer used behavior or actions to help convince the defendant to commit a crime m. This could occur through enticement, manipulation, coercion or baiting. The officer could appear as a drug dealer and offer to sell drugs to the person.

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