On Nov. 28, 2012, the Texas Tribune spoke with Professor Alexandra Natapoff about the role of snitching in Texas murder cases. Natapoff is the author of Snitching: Criminal Informants and the Erosion of American Justice and runs Snitching.org, a portal dedicated to covering developments in law-enforcement use of confidential informants.

"Odd as it may sound, Texas is at the vanguard of snitch testimony ... The use of criminal informants is a massive source of error in our most serious cases.”