“Looking back, I think the conclusion is...

“Looking back, I think the conclusion is inescapable that internal controls insofar as jailhouse informants were concerned have not been what they should have been. And that’s true for at least the past decade.”

--Richard Hecht, director of the Los Angeles County district attorney’s branch offices, after it was disclosed that top district attorney officials had rejected a subordinate’s suggestion to create a system that would allow prosectuors to quickly check the reliability of jailhouse informants.