I used to work for an electronics and recycling crowd based in St. Louis. I was in another state’s local sweatshop.
The majority of the St. Louis crowd then I could see as the sellout type.
There's a fine (and frequently blurred) line between reporting crime and being a sellout. I wonder how many of them believed they were the "good citizens" reporting violators they considered criminal, rather than the nosy blabbermouths they truly are.