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Thefirst maps shows the distribution of respondents across ZIP Codes (darker colors represent more students). Overall, we had at least one respondent in every Philadelphia ZIP Code except for 19112 (Philly Naval Shipyard), 19106 (Olde City), and 19118 (Chestnut Hill). the highest concentration of respondents was in the Southwest and Northeast.
VIII. My goal was to show how and why snitchin was so prevelent during slavery. Slaves were more inclined to snitch because they or their loved ones would be tortured, beat and often killed for not cooperating with the slave owner]]> Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:04:13 +0000 mod The Snitching Study http://lawandsocietyweek.pbwiki.com/The+Snitching+Study email.hidden@example.com (Rick Frei) Rick Frei edited The Snitching Study Minority Attitudes and Experience With Police (Anthony Van Luton)
The examples are African-Americans, however, this phenomenon could be prevalent in any Italian, Hispanic or other minority community. To say that African-Americans commit more crimes than any other racial group is absurd, yet African-Americans are overrepresented in our prison system.
180 African-Americans were present at a party. Two individuals were caught smoking marijuana and arrested. Because of the close proximity to several dozen other partygoers, many others were cited for marijuana use and/or possession. Many African-Americans do not trust the police departments because they have family members who have personally been denied due process or have been issued citations in dubious situations. Many of the black defendants who were cited did not respond to the citations. As a result, the presiding judge charged these defendants with “failure to appear” and a bench warrant was issued. Suddenly, a misdemeanor charge turned into]]> Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:01:06 +0000 mod The Snitching Study http://lawandsocietyweek.pbwiki.com/The+Snitching+Study email.hidden@example.com (D.PEIFFER) D.PEIFFER edited The Snitching Study Chante Wright was in the witness protection program because she wanted to help her boyfriend, who faced25 years in federal prison for dealing crack. They was going cut his sentence by two-thirds, so she put her life on the line, agreeing to idenfity the triggerman in an unrealted murder case. The police thought that her testimony was so crucial and so fraught danger that she became the first state witness in Philadelphia to enter the federal witness-protection program. The U.S. Marshals gave her a new identity and moved her to Florida. After a while the law enforcement officals said she wasn't follow the rules because she was making phone calls back and forth to Philadelphia. They gave her a second chance but she didn't follow throught so they release her from the program. She found out her grandmother was sick, so she flew out to Philadlphia. After hours laters she and her girlfriend was murder after a late night party.
www.philly.com/suspectheldinwitnesskilling
Minority Attitudes and]]> Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:35:18 +0000 mod The Snitching Study http://lawandsocietyweek.pbwiki.com/The+Snitching+Study email.hidden@example.com (D.PEIFFER) D.PEIFFER edited The Snitching Study]]> Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:17:36 +0000 mod The Snitching Study http://lawandsocietyweek.pbwiki.com/The+Snitching+Study email.hidden@example.com (D.PEIFFER) D.PEIFFER edited The Snitching Study]]> Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:16:41 +0000 mod The Snitching Study http://lawandsocietyweek.pbwiki.com/The+Snitching+Study email.hidden@example.com (D.PEIFFER) D.PEIFFER edited The Snitching Study Chante Wright was in the witness protection program because she wanted to help her boyfriend, who faced25 years in federal prison for dealing crack. They was going cut his sentence by two-thirds, so she put her life on the line, agreeing to idenfity the triggerman in an unrealted murder case. The police thought that her testimony was so crucial and so fraught danger that she became the first state witness in Philadelphia to enter the federal witness-protection program. The U.S. Marshals gave her a new identity and moved her to Florida. After a while the law enforcement officals said she wasn't follow the rules because she was making phone calls back and forth to Philadelphia. They gave her a second chance but she didn't follow throught so they release her from the program. She found out her grandmother was sick, so she flew out to Philadlphia. After hours laters she and her girlfriend was murder after a late night party.
www.philly.com/suspectheldinwitnesskilling
Minority Experience With Police (An]]> Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:14:05 +0000 mod The Snitching Study http://lawandsocietyweek.pbwiki.com/The+Snitching+Study email.hidden@example.com (D.PEIFFER) D.PEIFFER edited The Snitching Study Chante Wright was in the witness protection program because she wanted to help her boyfriend, who faced25 years in federal prison for dealing crack. They was going cut his sentence by two-thirds, so she put her life on the line, agreeing to idenfity the triggerman in an unrealted murder case. The police thought that her testimony was so crucial and so fraught danger that she became the first state witness in Philadelphia to enter the federal witness-protection program. The U.S. Marshals gave her a new identity and moved her to Florida. After a while the law enforcement officals said she wasn't follow the rules because she was making phone calls back and forth to Philadelphia. They gave her a second chance but she didn't follow throught so they release her from the program. She found out her grandmother was sick, so she flew out to Philadlphia. After hours laters she and her girlfriend was murder after a late night party.
www.philly.com/suspectheldinwitnesskilling
Attitudes Towards<]]> Mon, 14 Apr 2008 07:09:27 +0000 mod The Snitching Study http://lawandsocietyweek.pbwiki.com/The+Snitching+Study email.hidden@example.com (Rick Frei) Rick Frei edited The Snitching Study In music (predominantly rap/hip-hop) snitching is viewed as a negative or demeaning act against, not only against another person, but one self also. It is seen as problematic by rap artist like Fabulous and Cam’ Ron just to name a few. They consistently talk of the repercussions of snitching, which is usually violence.
“They shooked up and hooked up on respirators on they last breath talking to investigators…”
-Fabolous-
Not snitching on their other hand is seem as an honorable act and is held in high regard. An example of this is the notorious female rap artist Lil’ Kim. She shocked the nation when she was indicted for perjury in front of a grand jury. She lie and withheld information regarding her whereabouts in 2006, when a shooting took place in front of the Hot 97 radio station. Like Kim there are many artists that live in this code of silence, but is it a facade, or is this who they are?
In music (predominantly rap/hip-hop) snitching is viewed as a negative or demeaning act ag]]> Fri, 11 Apr 2008 21:49:26 +0000 mod Stop Snitching http://lawandsocietyweek.pbwiki.com/Stop+Snitching email.hidden@example.com (Brittney Galzarano) Brittney Galzarano added Stop Snitching
The origin of “stop snitching” is very unclear to many people, but from what I’ve learned my opinion is it is a campaign to convince criminals to stop “snitching” on other criminals that were not yet located, not yet found guilty, or have not yet been sentenced. Some public officials and others say that it is a campaign used by criminals to frighten people with information from reporting their activities to the police.

 

One example of how stop snitching gained national attention was in the year 2004 in Baltimore Maryland, when an NBA star, Carmelo Anthony who is part of the Denver Nuggets basketball team, was seen in a home video and he stated that it was a jo
]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:28:43 +0000 add The Snitching Study http://lawandsocietyweek.pbwiki.com/The+Snitching+Study email.hidden@example.com (Tymmothy Holland) Tymmothy Holland edited The Snitching Study In music (predominantly rap/hip-hop) snitching is viewed as a negative or demeaning act against, not only against another person, but one self also. It is seen as problematic by rap artist like Fabulous and Cam’ Ron just to name a few. They consistently talk of the repercussions of snitching, which is usually violence.
“They shooked up and hooked up on respirators on they last breath talking to investigators…”
-Fabolous-
Not snitching on their other hand is seem as an honorable act and is held in high regard. An example of this is the notorious female rap artist Lil’ Kim. She shocked the nation when she was indicted for perjury in front of a grand jury. She lie and withheld information regarding her whereabouts in 2006, when a shooting took place in front of the Hot 97 radio station. Like Kim there are many artists that live in this code of silence, but is it a facade, or is this who they are?
In music (predominantly rap/hip-hop) snitching is viewed as a negative or demeaning act ag]]> Wed, 09 Apr 2008 08:35:44 +0000 mod The Snitching Study http://lawandsocietyweek.pbwiki.com/The+Snitching+Study email.hidden@example.com (gwen gathers) gwen gathers edited The Snitching Study We hypothesized that the neighborhood a person lives in may be related to attitudes towards snitching and propensity to cooperate with police, so we asked students to provide their ZIP Codes. Of the nearly 1100 students surveyed, 895 students provided us with valid ZIP Codes. Jamie Picardy took the data from these students andcreated maps to look for geographic patterns in the data. Here are three of the maps that Jamie has created.
Thefirst maps shows the distribution of respondents across ZIP Codes (darker colors represent more students). Overall, we had at least one respondent in every Philadelphia ZIP Code except for 19112 (Philly Naval Shipyard), 19106 (Olde City), and 19118 (Chestnut Hill). the highest concentration of respondents was in the Southwest and Northeast.
VIII. My goal was to show how and why snitchin was so prevelent during slavery. Slaves were more inclined to snitch because they or their loved ones would be tortured, beat and often killed for not cooperating with the slave owner]]> Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:24:44 +0000 mod The Snitching Study http://lawandsocietyweek.pbwiki.com/The+Snitching+Study email.hidden@example.com (swoodruu) swoodruu edited The Snitching Study Stop Snitchin' (Britney)
Snitch Documentary(Drew)
The Snitch Documentary aired on PBS in January of 1999. Snitch investigates how a small change in America's anti-drug laws, including mandatory minimum sentencing and conspiracy charges, has bred a culture of people who snitch on eachother. In many cases this behavior rewards those who are truly guilty and punishes those who are less guilty. One specific case that the film looks into is that of a twenty-three year old man named Clarence Aaron, a college student serving three consecutive sentences for his small role associated wih a drug ring operated by his friends. Clarence simply drove and arranged meetings between potential drug clients, and is now in prison for life. Mandatory minimum sentencing involving snitching is unjust and it ruins the lives of innocent people.
The Boondocks' "Thank You for Not Snitching" (Alexis)
The Boondocks is based on a Comic Strip written by Aaron McGruder. The Comic Strip is featured in 350 new]]> Sun, 06 Apr 2008 22:19:00 +0000 mod The Snitching Study http://lawandsocietyweek.pbwiki.com/The+Snitching+Study email.hidden@example.com (shoneen) shoneen edited The Snitching Study seek out vengeance than to tell cops who assaulted you. Identifying members of the mafia is against the code and cause
for death. Joe Valachi broke the code of omerta when he was faced with a murder charge. There was a price put on his head
the mafia. mafia. (www.hrw.org)
Snitching and ACLU(Nwanyidimma)
Witness Protection Program(Jasmin)
]]> Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:47:28 +0000 mod The Snitching Study http://lawandsocietyweek.pbwiki.com/The+Snitching+Study email.hidden@example.com (shoneen) shoneen edited The Snitching Study * Adrian Scott, producer and screenwriter
* Dalton Trumbo, screenwriter
general meaning, meaning , not necessarily referring to the conduct of Joseph McCarthy alone.
Whistleblowing (Jay)
Codes of Silence (Shoneen)
Code of silence is strongest in the most crime-ridden and dangerous neighborhoods and is considered essential to
prove loyalty to other officers in those areas of the city. Cops have a code of silence called the Blue Wall of Silence.
According to this code cops don't tell on cops because their career would be ruined and they would be labeled as a rat.
Repercussions for breaking the code of silence include ostracism,threats,and the fear that officers will not "back up" or
protect an officer who breaks the code.The mafia have a code of silence called omerta. According to omerta it is better to
seek out vengeance than to tell cops who assaulted you. Identifying members of the mafia is against the code and cause
for death.]]> Sun, 06 Apr 2008 21:45:10 +0000 mod The Snitching Study http://lawandsocietyweek.pbwiki.com/The+Snitching+Study email.hidden@example.com (Alexis) Alexis edited The Snitching Study Snitch Documentary(Drew)
The Boondocks' "Thank You for Not Snitching" (Alexis)
The Boondocks is based on a Comic Strip written by Aaron McGruder. The Comic Strip is featured in 350 newspapers nationwide.It focouses on two innercity boys (Huey and Riley) who are moved to the suburbs by their granddad. It focuses on their daily lives and how their lives have changed since they moved from the hood to The Boondocks.
Relevant Links and Readings
1) "The Real Meaning of Snitching" by Ronald Moten
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Chante Wright was in the witness protection program because she wanted to help her boyfriend, who faced25 years in federal prison for dealing crack. They was going cut his sentence by two-thirds, so she put her life on the line, agreeing to idenfity the triggerman in an unrealted murder case. The police thou]]> Mon, 31 Mar 2008 11:26:00 +0000 mod