Snitching.
 

If you saw your next door neighbor shoot someone, but he didnt see you...would you turn them in?

no reward money.
and you dont know them.

on the converse...if you do turn him in...'what if he has serious psychological problems and you're next' lol

I would. If somebody shot me, I wouldn't want my next door neighbour to see it and not say shit. I also wouldn't think of it as "snitching" either.

@ Jason...i'll get the snacks..you get the gas lol

@NOBLE...glad you brought that up...that's why i named the thread Snitching, but didn't referred to it as 'turning him in'...

the bigger question is...IS IT REALLY SNITCHING

but why isnt it...

To me, "snitching" implies that you yourself are involved in a similar type of endeavour. If we were both in the drug game, and I ratted you out just so I can have less competition, that's snitching. But if I have nothing to do with the drug game and have never sold drugs, and I saw you selling it as directly against my interest and going to the authorities was the only way I could solve that, I wouldn't think of it as snitching in that scenario.

For me it depends on the murderee....say your neighbor shot and killed a, i dont know, Lutheran Woman, I'd give him the old neighborly headnod and continue peeping at the highschool girl (middleschool) in the house on the other side of me...Yeah all im doing is watering my lawn, standin out there for an hour with a hose and I got a beachfront property...

People are afraid to die whether they snitch or not. Sometimes they snitch because of their lives being in danger & sometimes they don't snitch because their lives will being in danger.

The more fear removed from the situation, then you get to the bone...raw shit

I dont understand, your saying you want a blowjob from a black male cause you keep getting refused by women who call the cops on you for being a male creep? i get it now.. ok sorry i didnt have my glasses on.

Most chicks could overpower you.

idk yo...

snitching is snitching to me. if you are unprovoked by the police, and you pick up the phone and name names and locations...to me i'd say that's snitching.

i'm not saying whether it's morally right or not...but i do think its snitching in all situations

I would call the cops without hesitation. If you wouldn't call in a murder you that you had nothing to do with, you might be a sociopath yourself. Wheres the empathy?

I think the way you come up dictates how you'd define snitching. I like how NOBLE put it. If you're directly involved, then it's snitching. But if you're a innocent by stander then it's justice. I don't think anyone should let them walk if they are in the position to stop them. But that's for murder. If it's a small time drug dealer I could give a fuck less.

im wit cha man....who knows why the neighbor shot the dude, maybe the dude fuckin wit his family or messin wit his kids, should be shot...wit all the judicial corruption, over use of political correctness and to big a government, i take pleasure in seeing the streets squash problems on their own...for real, thats the way of the simpler world...fuckin Al Gore

I took a trip to go see some family in East Africa & I'm pretty sure I saw the rebels who killed some kids in a village...

Empathy? Who do you snitch to in that situation?

who decide's what's just is the question though, right.

I understand but I find this scene almost therapeutic
I've seen some uglier shit

I guess it comes down to morals and perception. Everyone is going to have a different view on what's Just and what isn't. .

thats also the problem. Way to many people in life feel its their responsibilty to play judge jury jesus and Jay-z because for some reason their morale code is far superior to the common folk. In reality its obviously easier to cast judgement upon someone else all the while ignoring your own transgressions regardless of degree and thats waht allows these spineless hypocrites to sleep at night after a box o wine bottle o ambien and spouse comin home wit the stench of HandJob Alias on there lips, husband or wife...

There's nothing wrong with being judgmental...You gotta have good judgment in life

i dont know what i'd do in this situation, but me not snitching is not because i'm scared or fear death...its a belief that i have.

how long you been waitin to use that bumber sticker?

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meanwhile we snitch on eachother all day everyday in battles and forums...call people out on everything is the game

Thats a good question and one I don't have an answer to, but the question posed was about your neighbor. If I saw it in my neighborhood, I'm snitching.

Fuck a bumper sticker tho

People have been told being judgmental is bad
People in power make judgments

You hafta decide right & wrong @ some point

Krhyme obviously has a loose grasp on the term "snitching"

not at all....

where i'm from you mind your fucking business.

And it isn't snitching because

A) He isn't your boy (Or atleast from what you said in the OP)

And B) The guy who called the police is an innocent law abiding by stander/witness to a crime.

I think there is a difference on being Judgemental and excersising proper Judgement though Spooky...

lol....Europeans.....

It's only snitching if we go back and/ OR my hands are just as dirty as his or if not dirty to an extent.

If I was his neighbor and I was selling crack, that would be snitching.

Simply because of the hypocrisy. You can't go around doing dirt then turn in the next man just because what he does is "worse".

You can't pick and choose when to fuck with the police when it suits.

I think it boils down to where your interest lies and who/what you identify with more in a given scenario.
If cops asked me about some shit someone did and I identified more with that person or their act more than I do with the cops (pigs) then no, I wouldn't give them the information they request. But if the person had done something that I totally couldn't relate to, like they raped a child or some shit or if (most importantly) what they did actually affected me negatively directly, I would tell the cops if I couldn't handle it in any other way and it needed to be handled.
For those of you who see that as snitching in all scenarios, let me ask you this:
Your best friend is talking to a girl whom you come to find out had AIDS. Would you inform him of this to potentially keep him from making a fatal mistake, or would you keep that to yourself so as to not be a "snitch?"

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.