Finally. "Stop Snitchin'" is getting OLD
I discovered the cable real homicide investigation show First 48 last fall and I thought is was a new show. One weekend I watched a 4-hour marathon of the show. Apparently, it has been airing for a few years. I just started getting back into watching shows outside of news talk programs. For those who have never seen it, it starts out with a crime scene and the homicide investigators work on the crime for 48 hours. Either they solve the crime or they do not. Last night another show premiered call Crime 360? I watched that one too.
After watching these First 48 shows about 4 episodes a week, I thought I’d take a break from watching them, because it is as equally depressing as it is horrifying to know that there are so many of us killing each other, just because “we were there.” Slaughtering is taking place in most cases for no motive or during the commission of a robbery or a verbal dispute, and this problem is widespread.
Today, people do not think twice about looking someone in the eye and pumping bullets into someone’s head. No remorse. No feelings. Nothing. “Witnesses” don’t see or hear anything. When the perpetrators are being interrogated, break down, confess, and realize they are looking at 25 years+ behind bars; only then, the tears start to flow. Is that the FIRST time they actually thought about their actions and the full consequences? How did we get to this state? I don’t have the answer. Young men are desensitized to killing and the notion of dying. These are scary realties.
But wait. There is some hope. This morning I was in the grocery store and read the headline on the newspaper stands, and there is a front page story “Stop snitchin’ culture silenced.” There is some hope and this story talks about how the whole “Stop Snitchin’” culture is losing ground in the Boston area and that tips are being reported at a rate of five times more than 2 years ago. This is redeeming, and shows that people are fed up, and the number of people in the community who embrace violence is decreasing.
Boston has a very successful program where tipsters can text message in tips anonymously, and this has helped tremendously with the increase in the amount of crime information sent into the police department. We can only hope that this trend is spreading across the U.S. as we continue to promote programs like this. There are a few things missing besides intact family upbringing for criminals.
One thing that stands out is murderers and people who assault others have no regard for human life and no respect for the human body. You’d be surprised at the number of people who don’t know where their livers are located, its function or any other vital organs in the body. Kids need to learn about human anatomy from kindergarten, and I am not just talking about gentalia. They need to know how internal organs work, and what happens when one is damaged by a gun, knife, or an injury.
The next problem is violence in the form of entertainment. Parents have control over this, and really need to shield children as much as possible from violence in the form of entertainment, because it is too easy for child to be numb to this supposedly “harmless” form of entertainment.
Some people who stabs others, may claim they did not know that the person would die, when they stabbed them in a particular area of the body. Health education needs to be instituted district wide in all schools all over the country.
This won’t solve the problem of crime, but it will factor in, in helping to decrease the overall crime rate in the country.
Reference:
Stop snitchin’ culture silenced-After years of trickling in, crime tips flood BPD
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