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Cop in the Hood

Never mind "The Wire." Here is the real thing. --The Wall Street Journal


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Cop in the Hood is an explosive insider’s story of what it is really like to be a police officer on the front lines of the war on drugs. Harvard-trained sociologist Peter Moskos became a cop in Baltimore’s roughest neighborhood —the Eastern District, also the location for the critically acclaimed HBO drama The Wire. He provides an unforgettable window into this world that outsiders never see. Those who read it will never view the badge the same way.

Showing posts with label stop snitching. Show all posts
Showing posts with label stop snitching. Show all posts

Friday, August 22, 2008

'Wire' actress 'Snoop' released from jail

Read all about it.

Friday, July 18, 2008

And she didn't even snitch!

The LAPD was interrogated a murder suspect. A detective told the suspect that a girl he knew had ratting him out. Said she had picked him up out of lineup and signed her name. They even showed him the lineup with her initials. But it was a trick. A ruse. She had nothing to do with it.

What happened next was no joke. The suspect made a call from a jail pay phone ordering her killed. She was.

His call is recorded on tape. But police didn't listen to the tape till after the murder.

The detective has been reassigned.

Thursday, July 17, 2008

Snitchin'

The New York Times has an article about covering up a "Stop Snitchin'" mural.

The shame is that we need snitches... I mean witnesses... willing to testify. Too bad it's dangerous.

If we didn't use snitches so much in locking up drug criminals, I bet snitching wouldn't have such a bad name.