Talk:United States Federal Witness Protection Program

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1 Length of programme
2 Expansion
3 Limited Geographic Scope
4 Huh?
5 WPP in Fiction
6 WPP in the Theaters

[edit] Length of programme

How long do programmes last for? Indefinitely? Till the end of the case? Or till the witness/relatives die? Wondered this after seeing a cameo by a certain character in episode six of season five of The Wire. --81.102.216.3 (talk) 14:39, 12 February 2008 (UTC)

[edit] Expansion

It would be nice to see this article expanded, even for the sake of more thoroughly covering the US Witness Protection Program. I would like to hear more about the methodology used to hide those enrolled in the program, why people either choose to stay in the program or leave it, more detailed information on how the current program came to be, etc. Robert, 24 November 2007.

[edit] Limited Geographic Scope

How does program of the United States Government, that hides witnesses of the US Justice system, need worldwide perspectives? It's like saying that an article on the US Navy is limited in scope because it doesn't discuss the Chinese navy and Royal Navy? --Wingsandsword 17:40, 12 November 2005 (UTC)

I agree, there's no good reason for that tag to be there. I say we remove it. Jeff Silvers 11:29, 18 December 2005 (UTC)

I'm personally not keen on the way a non-US person typing in "Witness Protection" would be redirected here, because they might want an article on what happens in their own country. Unforunatly that article doesn't exist yet. --Christhebull 13:52, 1 June 2006 (UTC)

The UK Anti-social Behaviour Act 2003 apparently makes some provisions for witness protection; I believe this is where this request may have come from - i.e. people would like to know about witness protection programs in other countries.

[edit] Huh?

"Around 17% of protected witnesses will commit another crime, compared to the less than the 40% of parolees who return to crime."

The first half of this sentence makes sense.67.169.63.116 09:11, 6 December 2006 (UTC)

I thouht this was ood too so Im going to go and amend this accordingly --PrincessBrat 16:57, 19 February 2007 (UTC)

After doing some research an checking the artcile which it is sourced from (well done person who did that cos it enabled verification) the statement is exactly true. I will revert it back to how it was. --PrincessBrat 12:08, 23 February 2007 (UTC)

"Around 17% of protected witnesses will commit another crime". Why would WITNESSES commit ANOTHER crime? I don't undertsand this.

Many turned state's evidence in exchange for leniency Night Gyr (talk/Oy) 21:15, 14 May 2007 (UTC)

The problem with that is it makes the public believe that everybody that goes into this program was a criminal before, this is obviously false because there are many protected witnesses who were never in crime, so it should be edited.--President Elect 12:12, 21 August 2007 (UTC)

Here in DELAWARE we seem to get stuck with the 17%ers who continue criminal behavior. Stop poisoning our decent neighborhoods with your dregs! Put them in a similar shithole trailer parks from whence they came. You have planted a thief/con artist here last year and we have had, or rather LOST, enough. He continues robbing us of property and peace of mind with immunity. Who in charge of this program decides which LAW ABIDING CITIZENS BECOME COLLATERAL DAMAGE? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.218.90.220 (talk) 03:07, 25 September 2007 (UTC)

[edit] WPP in Fiction

Why the extensive lists of media that involve WPP? It isn't that notable, and the article is turning into a list of trivial mentions that have nothing to do with the article's subject (see WP:TRIVIA). If no one objects, I will remove these lists. --Scottie theNerd 08:54, 28 February 2007 (UTC)

STOP sending your dregs to Ocean View/Millville/Clarksville/Selbyville DELAWARE! We seem to get stuck with the 17%ers who commit other crimes. They do so with the arrogance of immunity. You are contaminating decent neighborhoods. Fuck them and fuck you! —Preceding unsigned comment added by 12.218.90.220 (talk) 02:57, 25 September 2007 (UTC)