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Speaking of not snitching, check out this mural at 20th and Florida.
When is it OK to snitch (i.e., inform authorities of a crime being committed, even though it won't make you popular in a certain clique) and when is it not? Also, maybe the city's sanctuary law -- a law Mayor Newsom vetoed, which the Board of Supervisors put this kibosh on this past Tuesday -- wouldn't be that bad after all? Just putting that out there.
(Thanks goes out to SFist commenter "What" for bringing this image to our attention.)
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Lovely. I'm mystified by people who talk about snitching being a bad thing, advocate violence against snitches and then complain when the police don't solve the murders in their community. If you advocate violence, you live with violence.
if indeed the same people do both of those things then, sure, it would be mystifying.
but do really think that's the case?
The only "stop snitching" scenario that makes sense is the "Prisoner's Dilemma" (i.e. should I keep my mouth shut so I and my criminal accomplice both get off scot-free?)
but if you are a person with no criminal accomplices...snitch away! Don't worry about some POS getting upset that (the horror!) they could get arrested. Don't do the crime if you're not prepared to do the time!
If ever a mural deserved tagging by the likes of Giraffe or whatever the fuck he is called, it's this one.
Your white privilege is showing.
Maybe if your community's experience at the hands of law enforcement was one of harassment and persecution, you'd change your tune. How kind of us to tell people of color what attitude they should take towards the cops!
¡TODOS SOMOS OSCAR GRANT!
If harassment and persecution happen, they happen regardless of snitching, don't they? The only people being protected by the anti-snitching mentality are those who have actually done bad things, or there'd be nothing to snitch about. And so you end up like the relatives of one of the Richmond gang-raping scumbags, blaming the police, yelling about snitching, whining about your victimhood, and doing what you can to get a violent, vicious rapist off scott free.
Seconded. "Stop snitching" protects criminals not communities.
You don't have to tell me about law enforcement harassment and persecution for I live with its memory every single day. See, just last month while visiting Newport Beach, I was driving down 405 in my dad's BMW. Then, get this, I was pulled over by a CHP officer, a nasty little troll who used the curtest tone with me before handing me a speeding ticket.
I still get the chills.
Brock, that sounds awful. Let me hold you.
lol
*Quakes at the curtest tone!*
The only difference between cops and thugs is that the government pays cops.
@ben: based on the last line of sfdely's comment, it's pretty clear he/she was being sarcastic.
Oh my god, you are such a fucking fool.
Yeah, you're doing a great job of policing yourselves down there. Lucid logic too: all police bad, all gangstas good. don't strain yourself thinking too hard.
¡TODOS SOMOS RICHMOND RAPE VICTIM!
We are all her, too.
But none of us didn't see nothin'. Right?