"Stop Snitching"

[chanel]

BULLETS TORE through the warm summer night, slicing into the crowd of about 200 people jamming a Logan street for an impromptu block party.

A 2-year-old girl took a bullet to her tiny stomach as she stood between parked cars. Three other people were struck. Dozens of witnesses scattered.

Everyone clammed up.

For nearly a month, whispers about the violence have traveled porch to porch. But infuriated police and city officials say not a single person has come forward with a tip, not even the girl's mother.

Although "stop snitching" is nothing new, this latest outrage provides a particularly galling example of the culture of silence that grips some city neighborhoods and cripples efforts to bring criminals to justice.

DEAFENING SILENCE

Makes me sick.

 

[Skull Pilot]

BULLETS TORE through the warm summer night, slicing into the crowd of about 200 people jamming a Logan street for an impromptu block party.

A 2-year-old girl took a bullet to her tiny stomach as she stood between parked cars. Three other people were struck. Dozens of witnesses scattered.

Everyone clammed up.

For nearly a month, whispers about the violence have traveled porch to porch. But infuriated police and city officials say not a single person has come forward with a tip, not even the girl's mother.

Although "stop snitching" is nothing new, this latest outrage provides a particularly galling example of the culture of silence that grips some city neighborhoods and cripples efforts to bring criminals to justice.

DEAFENING SILENCE

Makes me sick.

Cops can't protect you.

If your choice is tell the cops and face certain violence from which there is no protection or clamming up it's best to clam up.

 

[chanel]

If the cops can't protect you, who can?

Philadelphia averages about a murder a day. Black on black crime is accepted - even for 2 year olds.

It has to stop and without the public's help, it will only get worse.

I like Mayor Nutter, but he needs to do more. Call Giuliani.

 

[Ariux]

If the cops can't protect you, who can?

Protect yourself. Buy a gun. When a Trayvon attacks you, blow his Afro head off, and DON'T call the police.

Philadelphia averages about a murder a day. Black on black crime is accepted - even for 2 year olds.

Afros are animals.

 

[High_Gravity]

If the cops can't protect you, who can?

Protect yourself. Buy a gun. When a Trayvon attacks you, blow his Afro head off, and DON'T call the police.

Philadelphia averages about a murder a day. Black on black crime is accepted - even for 2 year olds.

Afros are animals.

You are a disgusting piece of dog shit.

 

[Ravi]

The way the article is written it sounds as if the mother is being accused of hiding the shooter.

Pretty hefty charge by the reporter, if so.

 

[Ariux]

You are a disgusting piece of dog shit.

That's random.

 

[chanel]

From today:

Shell casings littered streets in three Philadelphia neighborhoods as eight people were shot around the city in about an hour and a half Wednesday night, including the gunning down of a man in North Philadelphia, a bloody home invasion in Eastwick, and a possible drive-by in Point Breeze.

...Small said detectives were reviewing footage from surveillance cameras located outside a mini market on the corner and a church on the block to see if it captured any of the shooting. Police were also exploring the possibility that part of the shooting may have been a drive-by, but no description of any shooters or vehicles was available.

There were no witnesses, police said.


8 shot during bloody night in Philly

PA is a conceal and carry state. Owning a gun is not necessarily the answer.

 

[Skull Pilot]

If the cops can't protect you, who can?

Philadelphia averages about a murder a day. Black on black crime is accepted - even for 2 year olds.

It has to stop and without the public's help, it will only get worse.

I like Mayor Nutter, but he needs to do more. Call Giuliani.

Cops don't protect anyone all they do is react after a crime, especially a violent crime, has been committed.

 

[High_Gravity]

You are a disgusting piece of dog shit.

That's random.

Not really faggot.

 

[Ariux]

You are a disgusting piece of dog shit.

That's random.

Not really faggot.

I could be worse. I could be an Afro.

 

[chanel]

The way the article is written it sounds as if the mother is being accused of hiding the shooter.

Pretty hefty charge by the reporter, if so.

I didn't read it that way. She may know nothing. But it seems she's been mum, perhaps to protect the rest of the family. It is a very familiar "code".

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7iF3K3nhd58&feature=related]Stop Snitching Clip One - YouTube[/ame]

 

[manifold]

How do we know that street justice hasn't already been meted out for the shooter of the 2yr old?

 

[High_Gravity]

That's random.

Not really faggot.

I could be worse. I could be an Afro.

You could be a hair style? what are you some burned out transexual hair dresser?

 

[High_Gravity]

How do we know that street justice hasn't already been meted out for the shooter of the 2yr old?

We don't.

 

[manifold]

How do we know that street justice hasn't already been meted out for the shooter of the 2yr old?

We don't.

exactly.

In some of these neighborhoods the gangs offer better protection, and swifter justice than the police. If a grieving mother of a slain 2yr old isn't cooperating with the police, I'm going to assume she has a damn good reason. And judging her harshly for it from the safe distance of one's supremely high horse is the epitome of elitist arrogance.

 

[High_Gravity]

How do we know that street justice hasn't already been meted out for the shooter of the 2yr old?

We don't.

exactly.

In some of these neighborhoods the gangs offer better protection, and swifter justice than the police. If a grieving mother of a slain 2yr old isn't cooperating with the police, I'm going to assume she has a damn good reason. And judging her harshly for it from the safe distance of one's supremely high horse is the epitome of elitist arrogance.

The thing that people aren't thinking about is, these people have to live in these neighborhoods. In most cases people are being asked to testify against stone cold killers they see everyday, thats very dangerous. Unless you have the resources to move to protect yourself snitching on these guys is very dangerous, and thats very hard for others to understand apparently.

 

[whitehall]

How is it any different when the Attorney General authorizes 3,000 illegal weapons to Mexico, one of which kills a Border Patrol agent, and the president refuses to snitch by withholding documents related to the incident?

 

[chanel]

If the cops can't protect you, who can?

Philadelphia averages about a murder a day. Black on black crime is accepted - even for 2 year olds.

It has to stop and without the public's help, it will only get worse.

I like Mayor Nutter, but he needs to do more. Call Giuliani.

Cops don't protect anyone all they do is react after a crime, especially a violent crime, has been committed.

True, but they can remove the killer from the streets after that crime is committed (if witnesses come forward). Chances are, they will kill again.

In 2007, more than one person a day had been killed in Philadelphia, most of them in the southwest region of the city. Over the past 10 years in Philadelphia, the murder rate has climbed steadily in our city, from just under 300 to more than 400 last year. Half of the killings remain unsolved.

Philadelphia’s murder rate has been higher than New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. When the crime rates just began to raise, Mayor at the time, John Street reflected on this issue stating that it is a social problem in Philadelphia. It has also been brought to our attention that Philadelphia’s poverty rate is the highest of any major U.S. city, with an overwhelming amount of illegal weapons in the hands of city dwellers.

Insight Magazine – Unsolved Crimes

 

[High_Gravity]

If the cops can't protect you, who can?

Philadelphia averages about a murder a day. Black on black crime is accepted - even for 2 year olds.

It has to stop and without the public's help, it will only get worse.

I like Mayor Nutter, but he needs to do more. Call Giuliani.

Cops don't protect anyone all they do is react after a crime, especially a violent crime, has been committed.

True, but they can remove the killer from the streets after that crime is committed (if witnesses come forward). Chances are, they will kill again.

In 2007, more than one person a day had been killed in Philadelphia, most of them in the southwest region of the city. Over the past 10 years in Philadelphia, the murder rate has climbed steadily in our city, from just under 300 to more than 400 last year. Half of the killings remain unsolved.

Philadelphia’s murder rate has been higher than New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago. When the crime rates just began to raise, Mayor at the time, John Street reflected on this issue stating that it is a social problem in Philadelphia. It has also been brought to our attention that Philadelphia’s poverty rate is the highest of any major U.S. city, with an overwhelming amount of illegal weapons in the hands of city dwellers.

Insight Magazine – Unsolved Crimes

Getting that killer removed from the streets could cost you and your life their lives, remember in alot of cases the witnesses literally live in the same neighborhood as these cold blooded murderers.