{"id":330872,"date":"2025-05-07T09:10:26","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T14:10:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=330872"},"modified":"2025-05-06T19:28:00","modified_gmt":"2025-05-07T00:28:00","slug":"conceiving-crime-undercover-investigator-subject-investigation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/conceiving-crime-undercover-investigator-subject-investigation\/","title":{"rendered":"Conceiving Crime: An undercover investigator became the subject of investigation"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In the season finale of the Conceiving Crime podcast<\/a>, host Sami Parker takes a look at a multi-faceted case that took a full decade to play out.<\/p>\n

David Daleiden’s story first made the news back in 2015 when, after he released undercover video footage exposing harsh and brutal findings against Planned Parenthood, he found himself (and his fellow investigator, Sandra Merritt) to be the focus of a targeted investigation meant to destroy the reputations of those who exposed the information.<\/p>\n

In early April 2016, Daleiden was at home making lunch when he heard a knock on his door. Outside his window, he saw a large, white, windowless van and a dozen California Department of Justice agents surrounding his apartment. Several of them were at his door.<\/p>\n

“Some of them had, like, K-9 dogs with them. Some of them had assault rifles. All 11 of them didn\u2019t even fit in the apartment. It was that small. So, like, five of them went inside and were just, like, trashing the place, overturning boxes, like pulling things out of drawers, rifling through everything, the entire premises \u2014 and then the other six of them were positioned around the perimeter outside with their dogs and their rifles,” Daleiden told Live Action founder and president Lila Rose in a recent interview<\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n