Please START SNITCHING
The consensus and the Code of Silence on the street is not to snitch, don’t tell on me if you see me doing something that immorally wrong and a host of other things to that affect. Well folks the time has come for that code to broken. Just think about it for a minute that they are asking you to not say anything for something that can later come back and haunt you. The lost of a love one, some stolen or damaged property, it could happen to you or a close friend. Everyday these very mentioned things do happen, maybe not to someone you know, but as the crimes mount what is the likelihood or you turn coming next. And say that it is you or someone close you know, who do you call first some of us God, police second, very few of us do nothing and if we do not it would be obvious. Ok you call the police for whatever the case.  The investigation is on, police ask questions to the many people that are in the area, and nobody sees or hears nothing, notda. Now this is a love one just shot in broad daylight on busy main street Wilmington. Where is the investigation going from here, any ideas? It does not matter if the person shot was dirty or not, do you not say nothing because he/she was not someone you knew, love one, or the hating thing. What about doing the right thing? Because folks this so called code of the street is attacking us as a people, a community, you and I every day that it survives. You hear the city don’t have a homicide division to investigate, and if they did if nobody saw anything and no one talks it will take time to research gather data and quickly the trail becomes cold . http://www.courtprep.ca/en/justiceProcess/investigation.asp    As for me “Don’t let me see you do it” http://www.dontletmeseeyoudoit.com/  and I know I am not the only person that feels this way.
As we know Wilmington is not the only city suffering with this problem, it’s all around us; Philly, Camden, Baltimore, DC and these cities are taking action to break and end this horrific crime. 
We need to send a message now that we are not going to put up with the violence and the disrespect in our neighborhoods any longer. This code must and will be broken if we get involved join together collectively, churches, schools, civic groups, Politian’s and yes the police it will take everybody.  There are ways of doing this by becoming active within your community, block captains, neighborhood watch, attending civic association meetings.

October 07, 2009
"START SNITCHING"
Hakim Hazim, who's often written on GroupIntel about gang violence, has an interesting new piece at MSNBC's The Grio on crime and popular attitudes:
"There is a code and practice that has to be addressed in the black community. It's a code of silence that is deafening. It is a code that refuses to hear the blood of our brothers crying out. The "stop snitching" movement is a social construct enforced through various fears including fear of retribution and ostracism. But it's time to move beyond this dishonorable system, once put in place because of racist and hostile law enforcement agencies eager to round up any young black male that they could find."
The "stop snitching" movement is an interesting case for applying counterinsurgency theory to a domestic issue. In many parts of the inner city the police are seen as a kind of occupying army that only enters for raids (Iraq pre-surge?). Functional areas are controlled by gangs running sophisticated operations. "Stop snitching" manifests itself in three levels: a basic blood code enforced with violence by gangs in order to keep the population from offering the police support., a societal attitude (somewhat less significant), and an IO operation produced by those sympathetic to gangs (popular entertainers).
Hazim is right to point to its negative consequences and urge a rejection of the "stop snitching" ethos on a societal level. Yet one of the more basic elements of "stop snitching" is the lack of protection for those who "snitch" in even the smallest fashion. The most basic thing that must be done is to ensure that witnesses who see crimes feel like they can report them without fear of violent retaliation.

http://enclave-lion.blogspot.com/2009/02/start-snitching.html

More on this to come, as I a prepare a blog to escalate on this problem.
Please view this brochure in pdf file from the Department of Justice,  Office of Community Oriented Policing Services click here.