Many law enforcement agencies are quite happy to sign up confidential informants with no real consideration given to the risks they are running.
Here is a case from Alabama where a Sheriffs department is being sued for $10 million
Drug informant shot 15 times sues Jefferson County Sheriff’s Office.
It will be interesting to see how this pans out and how much if anything is paid out.
At HSM we would rather work with a law enforcement agency to prevent these things happening and protect everyone involved. By the time lawyers start contacting us it rarely works out well for the agency