Mr. Big (2007)

Original title

Mr.Big

Directed by

Tiffany Burns

Genre

documentary film

Country

Canada

Runtime

1h 29m

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

This documentary looks at a controversial RCMP undercover technique where officers pretend to be gang criminals to get confessions. It includes interviews with people who have been targeted by these operations and experts who question the method's reliability.

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What happens

Mr. Big is a 2007 documentary directed and produced by Tiffany Burns and edited by Alec MacNeill Richardson. The documentary examines the "Mr. Big" undercover methods used by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP). In these operations, RCMP officers pose as high-ranking gang criminals and develop relationships with the target involved. This is deliberate, as the relationship that is forged is ultimately used to determine what knowledge the target has of the crime(s) being investigated. "Mr. Big" operations have been credited with securing difficult convictions in a large number of cases, such as United States v. Burns, R v. Hart, and R v. Grandinetti, but concerns have been raised that they involve a risk of false confessions and wrongful convictions. Mr. Big includes interviews with targets of "Mr. Big" operations and their families, such as the Burns family, as well as interviews with various professionals who have an interest in the "Mr. Big" tactics, and RCMP footage of "Mr. Big" operations. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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