It's a question I've frequently asked people irl - Solely because of the extremely surprising responses. For me personally, It was quite odd to see just how many people actually sided with the 'no snitching' mentality - Even when different scenario's were offered (even when something/one bad is at the forefront of charges, some were still firm in their beliefs of NOT snitching. Thankfully, I've never been put in such a situation legally so I wouldn't be put in such an awkward situation - Though I believe i'd never be able to live with myself if I took that route and defended someone who didn't deserve such a luxury.
I know it's more of and older generation mentality, though it's still somewhat existent to the newer generation... Especially in the boroughs - What are your thoughts and beliefs on the 'no snitching' rule/mentality?
I ask this, as recently watching this missing persons video. It was an extremely interesting & disturbing case of two boys Elijah Moore & Enrique Rios who went missing from Brooklyn in 2016 just weeks apart. A quick run down : They were both 16 year old who were on probation for getting into a fight with eachother, they were in a program where they basically went to school for 4 hours and spent the rest of the day on a construction site - Basically bettering themselves and developing new skills. Enrique went missing first, his mom recounts the last time she saw him was him getting ready to go to bed - with less than 30 deg. weather outside, he was in shorts and a loose t-shirt. She woke up the next morning and he was gone - which was out of the ordinary (he had run away before, but she knew something was off since he didn't bring his construction clothes with him & that apprenticeship meant so much to him). The most puzzling part of the case? She texted him asking what on earth was happening, knowing something was off from his responses (she had the feeling that wasn't him texting) He never showed up for school and police really mishandled the case. They treated it as a run-away case and lost vital preliminary hours of potentially finding him. I'm skimming through, Elijah was in the SAME program... A little over a month later he was at the cheque cashing place depositing his paycheck - calls his mom asking what his social security # is, is the last time he's ever seen. Elijah tells his mom that before he comes home, he's going to see a friend on break.. he never shows. The friend then calls Elijah's mom as it's unusual for him to not show up when he says he would, the same thing happens to the friend - He receives extremely weird texts and instantly knows that it's not Elijah. He contacts the mom and the other son and they also confirm that it's not Elijah. They immediately file a missing persons case and the police also treat this poorly. It took almost a year and a half for the FBI to say that these two cases are connected (Fucking DUH)... The mothers say that the town they live in is small and everyone knows EVERYTHING.. People don't want to help and be seen as a snitch - They're overly confident someone knows what happened to the boys.
A few months after the boys disappearance, another older man who worked in the adult program of the SAME construction company went missing only minutes away from the chequing place Elijah was last seen, He was found deceased weeks later lying face first in the ground with an random vehicle submerged into a mud pond.
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It depends on what on what the situation is.
If I saw my sibling eat the last piece of chicken, I ain't snitchin'.
If I saw evidence that my neighbor/friend/whoever is a rapist, child molester, abuser, etc.