Good Samaritan Killed in Apparent Drive-By Shooting in Detroit

[Zacha341]

I hear you, perhaps we are saying the same thing... and I understand the common use of the word 'snitch', however I am using as it is expressed [[and what it is means in that context) in the 'streets' ala 'no snitichin'. What a specific witness does or DOES not do doesn't necessarily have to do with the broader, understood code of silence -- the kind that we see again and again -- that's the 'no snitchin' I am stating.

The kind of silence where witnesse[[s) may even know the party involved and say and do nothing. 'No snitchin'! That is part of the reason for so much crime and criminal spin-offs. Now let some reward come forth and some times the code of 'no snitchin' is set aside for fiscal motivation.

And to give those who keep quiet their due of understanding, indeed some may fear for their lives should they come forth. That speaks to how violence has impacted people at a very personal level. Perhaps people have too many skeletons that even leniency for their own stuff is not a motivator to speak up. So let the games of crime continue I suppose.....

There's a difference between being a "snitch" and being a "witness". If you're pretty much a law abiding citizen and you just happen to see a crime taking place, you're a witness. But if you're pretty much a law breaking citizen that will tell law enforcement anything they need you to tell them, regardless of whether it's true or not, in order to gain leniency for crimes that you have committed yourself, you're a snitch.

So it may not only depend on if someone saw the shooting, it may depend on what reason would bring that person forward.

[hamtown mike]

I'm not sure who's familiar with that stretch of Holbrook, but it gets pretty rough. There is a very sketchy ass apartment building less than a block away from Brush and Holbrook as well as some pretty large squatter pads. This is a very very transient area for those choosing to remain under the radar. A friend lives near by and his home has been broken into on a number of occasions.