Stop snitching goes religious

homeowner

Seems that the Bloods, Crips and Latin Kings aren't the only one's pushing the stop snitching mantra. Now it looks like God is coming after some of our neighbors for airing their dirty laundry to the cops...

bcodsnpkslope

at the risk of being branded racist, you mean another gang or terrorist orginization is telling their membership not to rat like the bloods crips Latin Kings mafia or any of the others?

joshkarpf

One area in that community where fear of religious authority has trumped law enforcement has been child sex abuse.

State Assembly member Dov Hikind's been on the front lines in fighting pedophilia among the Orthodox. When the head of his task force quit because of family pressure ("'Shame,' not threats, led to resignation"), Hikind continued his activism.

He's gotten half a million dollars of funding to "to help identify and treat sex abuse victims in the Orthodox Jewish community," according to the Jewish Week article "New State Funding For Sex Abuse Awareness."

That Daily News article does not make me optimistic, though.

whynot_31

homeowner wrote: Seems that the Bloods, Crips and Latin Kings aren't the only one's pushing the stop snitching mantra. Now it looks like God is coming after some of our neighbors for airing their dirty laundry to the cops...

If that is the case, clearly we need to get god undercontrol. In such a situation, god has influenced the leaders of a community to do things that may be against their interest.

If cops get the sense that the community "protects their own from criminal charges", yet wants their help in situations wherein the perpetrator is from outside [such as this one: http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=30458&catid=23#c ], I suspect they will eventually respond in kind.

However, the Daily News article did quote a rep who felt the reporter was making too much out of the edict.

....and (from my outside view) the commenters on the above thread feel they can question the wisdom of two of the heads of the Don't Snitch edict-issuing council ("Eli" and "Vaad")

....but perhaps their wisdom can only be questioned on an message board in in which posters assume they are anonymous.

hiscrownheights

WOW. I was thinking that you were referencing this song. :pale:

whynot_31

...and the internal debate hits the web.

http://www.crownheights.info/index.php?itemid=30680