USA Today wrote:the system encourages defendants "not only to sing, but to compose."
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51 of the 111 wrongful death penalty convictions since the 1970s were based in whole or in part on the testimony of witnesses who had an incentive to lie.
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one of every four black men from 20 to 29 is behind bars, on probation or on parole, and under pressure to snitch. She estimates one in 12 of all black men in the highest-crime neighborhoods are snitching.
She says informers strain the social fabric of poor minority neighborhoods, where as many as half the young men have been arrested. "Every family gathering, every party, every backyard barbecue probably has someone who's secretly working as an informer."
Why turn neighbors onto neighbors? The spying is overwhelming ... even Orwellian or KGB'ian.
Dealers tread water to stay alive, by treading blood.
As they wrote:Do cops snitch on other cops? ... Sometimes you must right wrongs yourself.