| I think it is time that people stopped snitching and | | | | Witnessing allows the police to do the work that |
| started witnessing. Now you might be wondering | | | | they were hired to do. It puts the proper amount |
| what the difference is between the two. The | | | | of power back in the hands our legal justice |
| difference is the motivation and the consequences | | | | system. |
| the two bring to society. One helps the other | | | | Snitching allows police and prosecutors to get into |
| hinders communities. One is driven by selfish goals | | | | a vicious and relentless cycle of dependency. It |
| the other is altruistic in nature. | | | | teaches police an addictive reliance on criminal |
| Witnessing teaches society to do what it has | | | | informants for the conviction of other criminals. It |
| always been expected to do. Be a good | | | | teaches them to be lazy and to trust the |
| neighbour, watch out for those around you. | | | | untrustworthy. Most times to the detriment of |
| Protect them and care about them like you would | | | | the very societies they are sworn to serve and |
| for yourself. It's all about freedom to stand up | | | | to protect. |
| against the oppression of criminal elements in | | | | Witnesses help and keep society safe and like |
| society. Being a witness does not bound and | | | | wise they should be protected by the community |
| entrap, it's about being free and helping out those | | | | they risk their lives to keep safe, and by the law |
| around you. Witnessing shows that you care | | | | enforcement persons assigned to those |
| about your friends, family and the society at | | | | communities. These are the people that should be |
| large. It's noble because the goal is to protect, | | | | getting immunity and full protection from law |
| assist and keep our community safe. | | | | enforcement. This form of community |
| Snitching advocates the fact that you do not | | | | corporation is helpful and it fosters good will in |
| have to respect the laws of society, you just | | | | society. We learn to trust that wrongs will be |
| have to be willing to snitch when the time comes. | | | | made right and those that commit crimes will pay |
| Snitching does not foster moral or social | | | | for them. It's a cohesive force that holds society |
| responsibility for criminal actions. It fosters a lack | | | | together. |
| of community trust, and shows that law officials | | | | Snitching is being used to destroy the moral fibers |
| will willingly turn a blind eye to the crimes of | | | | of society. It's being used to put criminals on the |
| snitches, and let them walk free in society, or | | | | street with full immunity from crimes they might |
| have reduced jail sentences. It's used to help | | | | commit or have committed, because they are |
| criminals set up and inform on other criminals, and | | | | snitching on others. It's a devious dragnet that is |
| sometimes on the innocent. | | | | creating and endless army of slave informants for |
| Witnessing does not stop the police from doing | | | | the law enforcement community. It's causing |
| their jobs, in fact it fosters community | | | | devastation in some communities, and it's doing |
| corporation because the community sees criminals | | | | more harm than good. |
| being put away. There are no dirty under handed | | | | When a society sees that criminals can be put |
| deals enslaving members of their communities to | | | | back on the street and protected for their past |
| become informants and so it fosters a sense of | | | | crimes and future crimes, it erodes the morals of |
| trust with the very people who citizens are | | | | that society. People learn to not trust or respect |
| suppose to be able to trust. | | | | law enforcement and they also learn to not |
| Snitching destroys families and communities. It | | | | corporate with law enforcement, cause how can |
| does this by making the young men and woman | | | | you trust someone who employs the services of |
| in those societies untrustworthy. It encourages | | | | paid criminals? |
| backstabbing and betrayal of friends, family, | | | | Witnessing is all about liberation and being free, |
| strangers. It's puts societies that are already | | | | snitching is mental slavery that leaves individuals |
| strained into even more strained circumstances. | | | | owned and trapped in a perpetual cycle that hurts |
| Snitching creates mental slaves, who willingly or | | | | society at large. Cases are being solved, but at |
| unwillingly sell their souls to the system for | | | | what cost to the society, morally and ethically? |
| reduced sentences, or freedom from iron prisons. | | | | |