Every time there is a shooting up here in Utica, NY where the victim is black, the victim rarely cooperates with the police. This seems to be SOP across the country.
And has been for at least 40 years.
“Stop Snitchin” has been a “thing” in the urban black community for a long time, and in particular a popular DVD with that theme came out of Baltimore in 2004.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stop_Snitchin%27
But yet we cannot talk about these factors that help explain why arrest rates for black males might be so high, just as we cannot talk about the fact that murder rates, among other crimes, are so high among black males. There is a subculture of violent criminal behavior that is accepted to some degree by the urban black community, or “Stop Snitchin” as a meme wouldn’t exist.
But again, of course you can’t talk about this topic forthrightly.