How does witness protection work?

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Anonymous 0 Comments

Other answers were good but what was left out.

You can never see family or friends again, cut all contact with anyone you’ve ever met.

There gonna get you a shitty job you don’t need a degree for ( college degrees won’t count, new name remember?)

Previous experience won’t count. No references, new name.

No Facebook, dating apps or pictures of yourself online whatsoever.

I’m sure there’s much more but it sounds really awful and not worth it.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Other answers were good but what was left out.

You can never see family or friends again, cut all contact with anyone you’ve ever met.

There gonna get you a shitty job you don’t need a degree for ( college degrees won’t count, new name remember?)

Previous experience won’t count. No references, new name.

No Facebook, dating apps or pictures of yourself online whatsoever.

I’m sure there’s much more but it sounds really awful and not worth it.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Another question regarding this. But is this forever or only for as long as it’s needed? Like do I have to kiss my previous life goodbye completely? Or just be under protection for a few years or however long it takes for the case to go to trial and to get a verdict?

And let’s say the bad guy gets locked up, can I go back to my previous life and pretend I just went on a long vacation somewhere? Or is it a case of having to pretend for the rest of my life in case of retaliation? Like if the person I’m testifying against is a mob boss or something with connections even from inside of prison.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Another question regarding this. But is this forever or only for as long as it’s needed? Like do I have to kiss my previous life goodbye completely? Or just be under protection for a few years or however long it takes for the case to go to trial and to get a verdict?

And let’s say the bad guy gets locked up, can I go back to my previous life and pretend I just went on a long vacation somewhere? Or is it a case of having to pretend for the rest of my life in case of retaliation? Like if the person I’m testifying against is a mob boss or something with connections even from inside of prison.

Anonymous 0 Comments

Another question regarding this. But is this forever or only for as long as it’s needed? Like do I have to kiss my previous life goodbye completely? Or just be under protection for a few years or however long it takes for the case to go to trial and to get a verdict?

And let’s say the bad guy gets locked up, can I go back to my previous life and pretend I just went on a long vacation somewhere? Or is it a case of having to pretend for the rest of my life in case of retaliation? Like if the person I’m testifying against is a mob boss or something with connections even from inside of prison.

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Anonymous 0 Comments

In the 80’s, a friend’s father was very publicly arrested for having a house under construction where the basement was full of guns and drugs (he was a “contractor” in NJ). A year later, the whole family was just gone. My friend was dating the daughter at the time and had no idea where they’d gone. About 6 months later he got a call from a pay phone from her, saying they were in witness protection and apologizing for disappearing. No one knew she was calling. We were all young at the time, and she was probably about 16. Every few months after that, he’d get a quick payphone call from her. He got the calls for a year or so, then they stopped and he never heard from her again. Such is life living in northern NJ.

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In the 80’s, a friend’s father was very publicly arrested for having a house under construction where the basement was full of guns and drugs (he was a “contractor” in NJ). A year later, the whole family was just gone. My friend was dating the daughter at the time and had no idea where they’d gone. About 6 months later he got a call from a pay phone from her, saying they were in witness protection and apologizing for disappearing. No one knew she was calling. We were all young at the time, and she was probably about 16. Every few months after that, he’d get a quick payphone call from her. He got the calls for a year or so, then they stopped and he never heard from her again. Such is life living in northern NJ.