tHAT ISN'T not SNITCHING THOUGH. tHATS WATCHING YOUR OWN BACK IN A ROUGH NEIBOURHOOD.

Thats perfectly normal in somewhere like Baltimore and I would never hold it against you to keep your mouth shut. Thats called using your noggin.

But if you did phone him in. as long as your a law abiding citizen who wants to live his life in peace and without fear of "being next"

Thats not snitching.

lol....nah...there's more to it than that.

if my neighbor was selling crack and i wasnt..it'd still be snitching if i called that in...
what is my motivation? envy? its got NOTHING to do with me

Kids for a start. You want your littleuns living next to a crack house?

Again that wouldn't be snitching.

Her you go, here's 1 for you.

You're a user. ya neighbours a crack dealer. You pop round to score and he burns you. You call the police on him informing them he running a crack house. Thats snitching.

You supply him his crack.

Again he burns you by refusing to pay for the supply you laid him. You go to the police. THATS snitching.

You live by the gun you die by the gun. You enter a certain life you better be about that life and deal with each scenario accordingly.

i hear you...but i just think its a cultural difference. to alot of people, selling crack IS a legit line of work. and i DO live next to a drug dealer, and i DO have 5 kids...

he respect me, and i respect his space.

That's because you can relate to him selling drugs and trying to survive. but what if you saw that same next door neighbour raping a little kid that was the same age as one of your little ones? You're telling me you wouldn't drop a dime on that nigga?

that's a good question..

and the answer isnt as simple. i would actually take action, yo.

idk...i just really dont like getting police involved in shit. dont get me wrong...there are situations where i would i suppose...but i guess i'd have to go through it to know

Thats fair enough. Like I said I get where you're coming from because to a MUCH LESSER extent. I grew up and lived in simmilar places. I'm not tryna say it's B-More lol but everywhere has it's bad spots so You get what I mean.

And as long as it's mutual and you're cool with living next to each other and it isn't effecting your kids, you keep doing you while he does him. lifes a LOT Easier that way. no reason to ruffle feathers or upset the apple cart.

I KNOW for a fact that if you did anything to get ya neighbour locked up that CHANCES ARE it's going to come back to YOUR door, sooner or later. And you don't want that. Not necessarily for you. But your kids.

We both know that once that particular ball starts rolling. it's VERY hard to stop.

And when I said "do you want your littluns living next to a crack house"

That was hypothetical because for some people that would be a legit reason to phone the police

word...now...that being said....its not a 'crack house'...if it was...that'd be different. i mean i likely wouldnt call the cops, but there would be a problem.

I believe in minding my own business too. The difference is when it gets to a point where its actually affecting me. If my next door neighbour happen to deal drugs, that has nothing to do with me and I wouldn't tell on him just because I happen to know that. But if he was dealing crack right out of his house and its bringing all sorts of crackheads and drug addict around and I have my kids witnessing/experiencing that, that's a different story. if it affects me directly, it makes it my business. And if I couldn't talk him into selling his shit somewhere else besides right in front of my kids, and for some reason, I couldn't simply move to a different neighbourhood, then I could see myself phoning the cops if I felt I could handle whatever repercussions there may be.

And THIS (at least for me) is where we start entering snitching territory.

Jason set up the scenario.

Now they've found ya neighbors product in YOUR possesion.

They take him in, they take you in. You've been quiet until now. But the police want to start asking for info in an I scratch your back if you scratch mine. You're getting punished but the punishment can be reduced.

You give them what they want. Either on your neighbour or on another or even a BUNCH of dealers you're in contact with.

Now you're snitching. You've spent years going against the law but now you wanna work with it by giving up FELLOW "crooks" who have been doing the exact same shit you have all this time.

I see snitching as something that is motivated by greed or some sort of low life slime ball snake like vengence whether personal or strictly buisness.

It aint snitching.

If OP turns in the shooter purely out of concern for the shot, his fellow man and his neghbourhood as a whole. It isn't snitching. It's performing his civic duty at his own disgretion.