Posted on 03/29/2006 11:06:23 AM PST by JZelle
The stop-snitching movement has spread across the United States, worrying police and prosecutors who often use informants to win convictions, a report said. The movement got its start two years ago in Baltimore in an underground DVD featuring armed drug dealers. Since then, the movement and T-shirts that say "Stop Snitching" have gone nationwide -- being worn by a diverse group ranging from rap artists to college professors, USA Today reported. The code of silence, David Kennedy of New York's John Jay College of Criminal Justice told the newspaper, "is breaking out in a way we've never seen before."
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
It's called accessory to crime. Give these @$$hats the sentence that would have been given to the perp.
Let's see how long this evil fad lasts.
Thirty years of law enforcement's war on the citizens and your average Joe six pack doesn't trust them anymore. Go figure.
Most police informants are criminals who will wind up doing time unless they give the police useful information.
People can wear all the "Stop Snitching" t-shirts they want, but when the cops say: "Look, pal, you're going upstate for 5 years unless you tell us who sold you the coke" they're saying who sold them the coke and they're leaving town.
LOL!
Do you Black Bloc guys wear black panties to match your facemasks?
So we said in the 60's, "Hate Cops? The next time you get attacked on the street call a Hippie."
Yes, this is a great idea until you're the one being attacked then having a witness to back you in court is a good idea.
So this shirt is worn by college professors -- not surprising -- either.
I think the guy has a point. People view LEO a lot differently than they did 30 years ago and it has an impact on how much people cooperate and respect them. Police themselves are to blame for a lot of this.
" "There's such animosity toward the police in some urban communities that even people who aren't afraid, and who hate crime, still feel cooperating is something good people don't do," Kennedy told the newspaper."
I don't think is is about joe sixpack, I think this is more a symptom of racial teachings to non whites.
This evil fad started about 30 seconds after the first policeman was hired...
Police have always had problems finding witnesses to crime, this is just a marketing gimmick for rappers and t-shirt vendors.
deal = dealers
I don't intend to defend the original poster you replied to, but I think you must be missing plenty of the 'Sorry, citizen. We thought you were someone else' accounts that appear here on FR regularly where rambunctious overzealous cops in tactical gear perform forced entries on an innocent person's house.
Happens all the time, you know. Some people are even killed.
I, for one, am not willing to risk these mistaken no-knock raids at the expense of catching someone with cocaine. Incidents like these have a way of making honest people clam up when dealing with the police. Maybe you can understand that.
I think the consensual crime laws and their enforcement are a lot to blame. It's hard to respect the man who breaks down grandma and grandpa's door and puts them in the hospital because he wasn't sure where the informant said the drugs were (was in a thread a few days back).
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2006-03-28-stop-snitching_x.htm
Aren't African-Americans amazing?
I'm witchoo.
A lot, perhaps most, people do not want to testify in Court about anything. When I was a prosecutor, almost everyone had an excuse or a conflict. It had nothing to do with politics. Usually, they were just lazy or did not want to miss work to perform their civic duty. I just hit everyone with a subpoena and, if they squawked, I told them if they did not show I would have them arrested.
Unfortunately there are too many cases where the informants keep giving information when they no longer have any valid information to give. There have been too many cases of innocent people suffering "dynamic entries" and arrests because some crook had to keep "naming names" or he'd end up behind bars.
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