Soror Summerchild,
I agree with you, the article does not discuss the role of police in this breakdown of communication, and I too have a healthy disdain for most police developed while growing up on the south side and being harassed for seemingly no reason (luckily, I have family members who are in law enforcement, so I always knew that if I were ever in a bind, I had someone that I could trust there).
However, as one person in the article said, adhering to this no snitching rule sends the wrong message to criminals--that their actions are without consequences. So as rampant as police corruption is and as problematic as the relationship between black communities and law enforcement often are, we don't really have a lot of options, because that is certainly not the message that I want to send.
Where is Batman when you need him.
