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 ...
As a matter of fact, you are now contradicting your own posts. LOL
When you finally figure out just what it is that you mean, get back to me.
http://www.rcmp-learning.org/docs/ecdd1222.htm#A%20Perceived%20Sense%20of%20Victimization
I'd give you a book list, but you claimed that you don't care. For someone who really doesn't care, you appear to care a whole LOT! Or, are you just thrilled to pieces by the attention?
Yeah, nice try. It is totally consistent with my point and also is supported by the section in the article headed The perceived sense of victimization. This is becoming more common among police forces and results in the way the populace views and treats them (differently than 30 years ago). In other words, it has nothing to do with hippies, yippies, sds and commies. Time for you to move out of the 60's
What, you've given up on your position and choose to snipe instead?
Bump for later.
Its such a "whatever" moment we should pause only long enough to hack up a snot wad to spit on it. The mayor here in Boston tried to ban the sale of such T-shirts, which pretty much ensured their sales amongst wannabes. If you grew up in a tough neighborhood you knew that code from birth and didnt need a shirt to remind you. If you heard about snitchin from the shirt odds are good you havent got anything worth talking to the cops about. Its not like somebody was about to tell everything to the cops and changed their mind when they saw the t-shirt.
"Did it ever occur to you that this mentality may be part of the problem?"
Ummm ... nope ... can't say that I did then or that I do now. The "problem" is that some people are lazy or selfish and do not want to perform their civic duty. The subpoena is the solution to the problem.
And YOU, very much, need to do research on the 1960s through the late 1970s! This anti-police has EVERYTHING to do with the hippies and Yippies and SDSers. Oh yes, and throw in the BLACK PANTHERS into the mix as well.
BTW...your erroneous "thirty years ago" time table, only brings us to 1976, which is a full NINE YEARS too late, for the genesis of the problem.
History is your friend...LEARN SOME!
My position is the correct one.
You even managed to agree with it. LOL
Your math is as bad as your reasoning, cupcake
Back in the 50s snitches were called finks. If you were a fink nobody would play with you, talk to you, except to call you names, or have anything else to do with you. In my junior high, the best catcher in the school was a fink, and Coach had to cut him because the rest of us said we would quit the team rather than play on a team with him.
As the country became more totalitarian, government agencies, like the schools, welfare offices, social services, etc., promoted becoming a fink. Added to that push by the political class was the destruction of close knit neighborhoods. As the society became more mobile and people had less roots, being a fink lost its stigma.
It’s one thing to squeal on someone you’ve only known for a short time. It is a totally different thing to squeal on someone you’ve known since birth and your parents and grandparents grew up with his parents and grandparents.
Things are so sick today, people even squeal on relatives. I’ve heard of parents who turn their own kids in for shoplifting. Back in the 50s parents would smack the hell out of the kid and march his ass back to the store to return the goods. If they had called the cops instead, even the cops would have look on them as scum. Today, they tell the parents they did the right thing as they haul the kid off to be booked.
The date, today, is March 30, 20006.
With me so far; oh great math whiz?
2006
-
30
IS 1976!
0 from 6=6
3 from 10 ( take one away from the 0, can't be done, so move on to the 2, one from 2 = 1, add the 1 to the 0, making it a 10, then take 1 away from that, making it a 9, add the 1 to the last 0, making it a 10 ) = 7 !
Ergo, 2006 minus 30, equals !
Failed first grade math, over and over and over and over again, did you; pet? Pity that!
Now, before you make yourself into an even greater fool, than you already have done, I heartily suggest that you tell your mommy that you need to be tutored in simple math skills, logic, debate, and recent American history. ;^)
Did you bother to read the article?
What solar system are you operating in, cupcake? You keep 'explaining' points that make no sense and have no bearing on the issue in any event. I'm back to not caring what you have to say but I'll be generous and assume the reason I can't understand anything you are trying to say is because your intellect is beyond my scope. Yeah, that must be it. Thanks for the math lesson. I was able to follow that even though it had nothing to do with the article or any point I attempted to make and in spite of the fact you can't keep the number of digits straight. Maybe your own mommy can help you with that although it occurs to me she may be part of your problem.
Of course what I've posted makes no sense at all to you; you not only keep claiming that you "don't care" about facts, but you appear to have a terrible problem with reading comprehension and memory. Why is it that you can't remember what you have posted? :-)
Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.