On WNYC now. Should be archived later. Its in the Brian Lehrer show and is a very good program on the abuse of snitching, how pervasive it is and that the catalyst is the war on drugs.


http://www.wnyc.org/shows/bl/episodes/02242006

When it is available I will try and locate the archive:


jurisprudence
Bait and Snitch
The high cost of snitching for law enforcement.
By Alexandra Natapoff
Posted Monday, Dec. 12, 2005, at 5:41 PM ET

From Baltimore (http://www.baltimoresun.com/features/lifestyle/bal-te.to.tshirts30apr30,1,1282301.story) to Boston (http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/12/05/snitching_t_shirts_come_off_the_shelves/) to New York; in Pittsburgh (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05291/590424.stm), Denver, and Milwaukee, kids are sporting the ominous fashion statement, prompting local fear, outrage, and fierce arguments over crime. Several trials (http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05291/590424.stm) have been disrupted by the T-shirts; some witnesses refuse to testify (http://pittsburghlive.com/x/tribune-review/tribpm/s_391176.html). Boston's Mayor Thomas M. Menino has declared a ban: "We're going into every retail store that sells them," he declared to the Boston Globe (http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2005/12/02/summit_targets_gun_crimes_intimidation/), "and we're going to take them off the shelves." With cameo appearances in the growing controversy by NBA star Carmelo Anthony (http://www.blackamericaweb.com/site.aspx/bawnews/snitching1205) of the Denver Nuggets and the rapper Lil Kim (http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/sns-ap-music-lil-kim,1,2240951.story), snitching is making urban culture headlines.
The "Stop Snitchin' " T-shirt drama looks, at first blush, like a dustup over a simple counterculture message launched by some urban criminal entrepreneurs: that friends don't snitch on friends. But it is, in fact, a symptom of a more insidious reality that has largely escaped public notice: For the last 20 years, state and federal governments have been creating criminal snitches and setting them loose in poor, high-crime communities (http://www.law.uc.edu/lawreview/uclaw73pdf/0645natapoff.pdf).

Alexandra Natapoff (http://www.lls.edu/academics/faculty/natapoff.html) is an Associate Professor at Loyola Law School, Los Angeles, and the author of a University of Cincinnati Law Review article titled, Snitching: The Institutional and Communal Consequences (http://www.law.uc.edu/lawreview/uclaw73pdf/0645natapoff.pdf). She can be reached at alexandra.natapoff@lls.edu (alexandra.natapoff@lls.edu).

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Cool, thank you for the link.