by:
Lee Fang, ThinkProgress
| Report
A few years go, a media firestorm erupted over the urban “Stop
Snitchin” campaign promoted by gangs and a few hip hop icons. Stop
Snitchin refers to the effort to intimidate informants to prevent them
from cooperating with police about gang violence or drug trafficking
schemes. Rapper Cam’ron received heavy scrutiny for endorsing the trend during an interview on the issue for CBS’s 60 Minutes.
A new Stop Snitchin campaign to deter would-be informants, in this case
against people speaking up against crimes on Wall Street, is quietly
taking shape, this time far from the media’s eye.
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