Undercover Shenanigans

The trouble with undercover police operations, Gary Marx’s excellent new book might lead us to conclude, is that they breed government waste: not waste of time or money so much as of human personality and integrity of the law itself. Marx gives a case in point:

“Consider, for example, a northern California police officer who rode with the Hell’s Angels for a year and a half. He was responsible for a large number of arrests, including previously almost untouchable high...