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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Neither of the prior posters seem to understand the "no snitching" culture that prevails in high poverty urban areas.  If you want to understand how urban AA have historically been underserved with respect to justice (while being "over served" with respect to policing), read "Ghettoside".  It's about LA but could just as easily be about DC.  It does a good, and fairly apolitical, job of identifying the historical patterns that have led to low level criminals and community witnesses being unwilling to testify against the top predators in their communities.  When you do not believe that the police will protect you from being murdered, then your appetite for cooperation plummets.

But that is a separate issue from overly generous plea deals and insufficient consequences for juvenile violent crime.  [/quote]

No, I totally understand that's the culture.  But prosecutors also need to set a tone and culture of "you get nothing if you give nothing" for plea bargains.  Fine if they don't want to snitch.  The consequence of that is that after that first leniency deal or two that they get, for ever after they should bear the full brunt of prosecution and sentencing with no leniency and no deals on the table unless they either give someone up or completely commit to a completely different path in life on the right side of the law.[/quote]

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