[Avodah] some halachot of moser

[Eli Turkel]

  R Broyde has an article on the
subject in Journal of Contemporary Society 43

In it his brings that the Tzitz Eliezer allows reporting crimes to
western society governments based on the Arukh HaShulchan
that todays governments do not
kill criminals as bandits used to in the old days.
Tzitz Eliezer explicitly says that one should inform on child
molesters to the government

R. Elyashiv concurs in a case of a robbery in the office of religious
affairs. Informing
the police will lead to an investigation which most likely will find one of the
religious employees guilty. R Elyashiv based on a Panim Meorot says to report
the incident to the police

R Batzri disagrees stating there is no such thing as a just secular government.
R. Wosner differentiates bewteen a crime under Jewish law and a crime only under
secular law. When the incident is covered under dina demalchuta then one
can inform the police.

R. Moshe Feinstein seems to allow informing the police only for violent crimes.

In summary it is a machloket haposkim and so the one who informed has
a legal basis.
Even in theory one would have no right to kill such a person.



-- 
Eli Turkel