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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]
The truth is that only bad things happens if you get on the police’s radar. If you go to cooperate as a witness, they may try to bust you for something else. Since a lot of people end up with ticky tack stuff on their record, like unpaid tickets or failure to appear for jury duty or some minor technicality they may not even know about, putting yourself forward to police can also put yourself in jeopardy. They may use your name when interrogating suspects for unrelated crimes, intentionally or by accident.  They may threaten to tell people you are a snitch in order to get you to make statements that were not true so they can secure a conviction. They may regularly show up at your house unannounced. Etc. [/quote]

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