Do not be caught unprepared. On the other hand, you may not alter or add to the text in any way. Know the laws, potential sentences, and likely prosecutorial practices against any crimes you're committing. Keep groups small. They know the date, time, how many people were there, some names, some physical descriptions, the drugs dealt or the damages caused. What follows are only guidelines. Contrary to what their name suggests, naked . 1)Rats are medium-sized rodents with a long tail. In game theory, according to Wikipedia, " the logical decision leads each to betray the other, even though their individual 'prize' would be greater if they cooperated." Our helpful attorney notes: "This is a good reason for 'lawyering up' in the first place. Snitches damage individuals, organizations, and movements even before they actually rat on anybody. Even if you get busted, you'll handle yourself in a way that will make you less vulnerable to manipulation. You're a perfect candidate for successful interrogation! Then state in the strongest terms why you realized you would not and could not do it. They may even force you into life-threatening situations and not give one bit of a damn what happens to you. Someone starts agitating to have your group do something outside the group's purposes. A snitch or a rat is an individual who goes against everyone else just to clear their own name and or they can't handle business themselves they call the police and hand over all evidence. If you agree to snitch on your friends or associates, know in advance that you're going to have a big price to pay. So if you suspect someone of snitching but you have no solid reason for your suspicions, it's usually just best to detach yourself from the person while remaining watchful. Steve explains: "Three of us who fairly trusted each other wondered how bad we were compromised and decided to try a test. A rat is a f*cking . His wife went to the same school as you, different years. The only other California cities that made the list were Los. Put your story out on social media. And rightly so. A boy may call his little sister a snitch if she tells his parents he stole a cookie. Uncovering a snitch can help the remaining trustworthy members of a group to pull together. Someone goes out of his way to gain your trust, to be really buddy-buddy with you. And there are really some people who would do that. They'll tell you your friends are snitching on you in the other room. Some may even be associates in the snitch's plan to bust you (it's not unusual for government agencies to plant multiple agents into one operation and the bitter old joke that, if not for the snitches, some meetings would be empty, isn't that far wrong). They often deal with petty criminals who expect nothing more than to be "processed." (Or conversely) So idealistic and starry-eyed that reality, when it hits, knocks them for a loop. However, now you've got other people to worry about. Back in the late sixties or thereabouts, there was a federal case in which Treasury agents latched on to a printer who was willing to fantasize about doing some counterfeiting. They may tell you that a friend arrested with you is already singing like a bird, and you should, too, if you want to save your ass (see "The Prisoner's Dilemma" later in this book). The KGB used to call it "the sparrow trick"; get a red-blooded heterosexual male up close with an attentive, manipulative female and said male will eventually whisper all manner of secrets into her ear. A friend suddenly starts pushing you to do or advise on illegal things. Again I couldn't help myself and laughed out loud. . Don't ramble and make excuses. React to any one of their scenarios or agree to anything they suggest here, and you're not getting away until you sign a confession and give them the names and information they want. If prosecutors can find any inkling of a defendant's disposition to the crime, went Rehnquist's logic, then the person is guilty, no matter how outrageous or abusive the government agents' behavior. Do not line up behind, or even pretend to agree with, that person's policy recommendations, strategies, or tactics. His or her experience with people who've been accused by snitches. Spy agencies have known this as long as there have been spy agencies. But that brings up a related subject. This is just to note how seriously people have historically taken those who betray them. PART TWO: A Snitch Uncovered Cover We've talked about how to recognize snitches and what you, as an individual, should do to protect yourself. Maybe they'll keep them, but they're just as likely to leak your name or "accidentally" put your name into a public document. Continue Reading Dixon Diaz If you're lucky and the activities of your snitch are particularly egregious, you might even get sympathy, donations, or renewed positive attention once good people realize what evil that person and her handlers tried to do to you. You know the kinds of things you've been doing. Maybe even as small as a "cell of one.". Describe what you felt and endured. Write the notes as soon as possible after an incident. However, traditionally it's been used as a lovely bit of revenge and a way to keep snitches busy without letting them know you're already on to them. Explain the kind of pressures that were put on you. Okay, so you find yourself under arrest because of a snitch. A good lawyer will rip a snitch apart and develop reasonable doubt in the eyes of a judge or jury. It's reported that 6ix9ine is considered vulnerable, since he has severe asthma. Agents provocateurs may, among other things, try to turn non-violent protest into violent action, thus discrediting movements, giving excuses for crackdowns, and giving more publicity and power to government agencies. Your snitching will probably not be important enough to earn you a spot in the Witness Protection Program, not even if you put your life in danger for your cop-handlers' sake. The Initial Behavioral Analysis is supposed to weed out innocent suspects, but in reality this is where LE determines your susceptibility to further questioning and picks the strategy they will use against you. If you become a snitch and don't regret it enough to stop, then to hell with you. It works something like this: Two (or more) people are arrested but the police don't have enough information to convict either of you. Sometimes, on the other hand, your lawyer's just a lazy SOB who doesn't give much of a damn and thinks turning snitch is the easiest resolution for him. Describe what you felt and endured while being pushed into agreeing to snitch. Their broad heads contain strong, muscular jaws that support four incisor teeth that are used for digging. Being a rat doesn't diminish their ability to fight, it just changed their tactics and focus temporarily.". You or someone you care about may end up in prison, broke, or otherwise badly hurt. Contents If you are a high-value target, if you know or associate with high value targets, or if your activities rise to the level of interest that police want to question you, LE agencies employ an interrogation method known as the Reid Technique. One of us went to each of these meetings and it was only some of the people told about it and a massive police presence at all of them. If LEO asks if you know the time, remember that that's a yes or no question. What happens to you if you snitch and your friends find out? "Nyet" Says the other, "One of us might be KGB!". LE calls it "developing a theme," what they're really doing is presenting options for you to pick from to confess to. Photograph the person(s) following you or have a friend do so. This is another reason you want to have consulted with the attorney BEFORE you need one. In the 1980s and 1990s, the African National Congress punished perceived collaborators with the monstrous method called "necklacing." We mentioned this option before as a means of protecting yourself and your true friends. So do prosecutors and virtually all government investigators. Snitch commits the crime with you and tells on you . One never knows, you could be wrong and get sued or if you do get arrested this could be the basis for a defense from entrapment. If you can do so without violating your state's law, quietly begin video or audiotaping all interactions with the suspected person. In fact, such tactics may well end up with YOU being labeled - no matter how unfairly or incorrectly - as the snitch! Definition - one who snitches; a tattletale. Do you agree that criminal Informants are cut from an untrustworthy cloth. He looked the part but things just did not add up. Snitches are famously unreliable: A 2004 study by the Northwestern University Law School's Center on Wrongful Convictions reveals that 46 percent of wrongful death penalty convictions are due to. It means conducting yourself in such a way as not to give away secrets or walk stupidly into avoidable dangers. But having agreed to snitch, then changed your mind, you've got a tough dilemma and you could use some assistance getting out of it. A snitch is often either a real scumbag who's in the pay of police or a formerly decent person trying to save herself (or family members or friends) from a long prison sentence by getting others to commit crimes. quicklist: 1title: He Was Kicked Out of Witness Protectiontext: After his 1980 arrest on a narcotics-trafficking charge, Hill turned "rat . Tell your associates what happened to you. Today, that dumb sap of a printer would be in prison for a long, long, time. The East Atlanta duo express their disdain for snitches and rats. Then, after a personal dispute with fellow writer Jim Hogshire and Hogshire's wife (a "he said-she said" encounter whose facts are known only to the three who were present), Black did the unthinkable. Brothers couldn't trust brothers because so many were reporting to the state. He doesn't sell secrets for power or cash, he betrays the trust of his team or his family hoping to save his own cowardly a**. However, if you are not about that life and are just a civilian going about your business, calling the authorities when a. When you are at your most vulnerable, the interrogators are ready to begin. Quietly encourage others to be watchful (it's just good OpSec, after all), but do not make public accusations without real reason. This is someone (often a professional) who is inserted into a group for an active purpose, such as disrupting the group, or worst, talking formerly innocent (or at least formerly non-violent) people into committing crimes in order to bust them. You can chitty-chat with your cellmates to pass the time and keep them from thinking you're a jerk; you can probably also learn quite a bit from them. But as always, there are no guarantees. rat, (genus Rattus), the term generally and indiscriminately applied to numerous members of several rodent families having bodies longer than about 12 cm, or 5 inches. Use the FAC file and keep notes from unsettling situations and see if a pattern emerges. Never mind that, in our legal system, the government is supposed to have to prove your guilt; that's become a quaint notion. But the fact is, until we've been tested, not one of us really knows what we might do under the right kind of pressure or persuasion. ), They may make it easy to commit crimes by not only pushing the idea, but actually supplying the funding, the equipment, the transportation, and the planning for the crime. I'll pay you. When you've been arrested and are being interrogated, one cop will bully and intimidate you until you're just a little puddle of terror. A "Rat" is a turncoat. And worse, you think the person is, or even might be, targeting you. Chances are, if you're a non-violent political activist or small-time dealer of "college type" drugs who got busted and turned, your friends will hate you but won't beat you up or kill you if they learn you snitched on them. Is there a danger in such a wait-and-see approach? And remember: Everything we say about not talking to cops also goes for every, single kind of government agent, local, state, national, or international. 8 min read. And you a nobody n broke free Ysl. You're asked to do illegal or dubious business with a "friend of a friend." Naturally I stayed on to enjoy the festivities. You betcha. What's the difference between a snitch and a rat? It can teach group members not only to be less gullible, but teach them what signs to look for when a snitch is targeting them. Snitches damage individuals, organizations, and movements even before they actually rat on anybody. Sometimes they get everything they need from some anonymous person who makes false accusations via a tips hotline. This a) puts you on the record as NOT being in bed with the snitch, b) alerts the snitch and his handlers that you're aware of him and are thus less likely to be an 'easy target,' c) creates an appearance that you're not one of the bad guys - since you're not hiding anything, and d) maybe - with a little luck - the snitch ends up in jail himself for some time. Topics include "Don't get tricked," "When do I have to show ID?," "How to refuse searches," "10 Rules for dealing with the police," and much more. If you don't start wailing and confess to everything, the next thing they'll try is shifting blame. Oh yeah. The other side is playing for keeps and to them rules are irrelevant inconveniences. He doesn't sell secrets for power or cash. Their nyms appear with their contributions. You aim to commit violence against innocent people. They will disrupt you mid-word, tell you to shut up, tell you it's not your turn to talk, anything just to keep you from denying your guilt. Then on the next line write the weather conditions. They may literally "cut from the herd" the most naive, trusting, foolish, or discontent of your associates, isolate them, and psychologically manipulate them into committing crimes. Reid is broken down into three parts, Factual Analysis, the Initial Behavioral Analysis Interview, and the Interrogation. Please read the article on the Reid interrogation techniqueTM that appears toward the end of this booklet. "C'mon, if you had any guts you'd do this." Remember those "iffy" statements ("I don't recall "), but deny being there, deny any knowledge of events, deny knowing people, deny everything you honestly can. You should also expect to drop some money up front on a consultation with a potential defense attorney. An online commentator who goes by the handle Bulucanagria recalls: Some years ago I was returning from a job interview. Do not try to explain yourself (also very difficult for some of us). After each incident write details down. They will toss you aside like a piece of maggoty meat when you no longer serve their purposes. Good cop will appear to be sincerely caring about your predicament. You're not going to have a chance to find another you. We'll say it again: your best bet is just to get away from the snitch and take protective measures as described above. (We'll have more on this in Part Three and in the appendixes. Even those eventually found not guilty may lose everything in the effort to save themselves. It's also important to remember that a person who makes a false accusation of snitching is acting like a snitch himself. Similar to cats, rats will scent mark with urine to communicate with . They may say they already "know everything," so you might as well tell "your side of the story" to make others look worse than you. The more innocent you are, the more you're likely to be blindsided and hurt by one of these betrayers because innocent, naive people make easy targets. Just say, "I didn't do it," "I'm innocent," "That's false." ROBIN VAN LONKHUIJSEN/AFP/Getty Images. Or that may not happen. The club's leader, Aref "Scarface" Nagi, was obsessed with hunting down the secret informants in their midst when federal investigators infiltrated the Highwaymen in preparation for a . The first thing to do, as we have said before and will say again, is to get away from that person and his or her influence. Believed to be the biggest rat, it is more than 32 inches (81 cm) long (including the tail) and weighs more than three pounds (1.36 kg). Justice William Brennan dissented, warning that the decision could empower law enforcement agents to 'round up and jail all 'predisposed' individuals.'". Coming from a job interview I was dressed casually, but rather nicely; slacks, button down shirt, decent shoes. Appendix 3: Line up a lawyer This person may be hoping the cops will pay with money, drugs, or ongoing criminal immunity for her dubious "services." What if you agree to do it, then before you actually snitch on anybody, you realize you don't want to, can't, and won't betray other people? That mouthful means that it is okay to copy and distribute this booklet for non-commercial purposes as long as you attribute it to the original source. Has she been seen with police? Have a cat, dog, fish? What exactly is a snitch? Second: If you can truthfully do so, DENY EVERYTHING. Meanwhile, in 2018, a book claimed to offer evidence that Anne Frank and her family were betrayed by a Jewish woman who was executed after World War II for collaborating with the Nazis. Prior to talking to you, the LE tries to learn everything there is to know about the event leading to your arrest. Then another cop (who may be present at the same time or who may come in later) will pretend to sympathize with you and want to "help" you. "), An older, "more experienced" person joins your group or circle and soon becomes a counselor of sorts to the youngest, most edgy, most insecure, most angry, or most naive members. Around snitches, and in a "snitch culture" like ours, there is always danger in many forms. These quotes about snitches and rats highlight some of the most difficult situations we are faced with. The IRA used to shoot betrayers in the kneecaps. You can also use rat as a verb to mean "betray or snitch on." Definitions of rat. At best, snitches have to spend the rest of their lives looking over their shoulders. In his youth, Steve was a member of a number of groups that attracted the attention of cops and snitches. The reason for the record of what the weather was like is that the usual first question from a prosecutor or the other side's lawyer usually is about the weather. As they grew older, they went to the same schools, and entered the same military duty side by side. Yet people still get entrapped by ignoring it: "You can always tell the FBI agent. Snitches are everywhere and their use is growing. It wouldn't kill them, but everyone who saw a former activist lurching down the street on destroyed knees knew what he was. AT ALL. Although a jury will occasionally decide that some act of entrapment is so outlandish they'll refuse to convict (do an Internet search on "FCPA Africa Sting" for a great example), victims of entrapment have ended up serving decades in prison for going along with plots cooked up entirely by government agents. But they're among the most common ones. voles and mice) having bodies longer than about 12 cm, or 5 inches. His or her length of time working in criminal defense (generally longer is better, but not always). So what if, under pressure, you agree to become a snitch and regret it later? All of them are just plain rats and they're as welcome in the company of good people as rats are in a pantry. Redeem Now Buffering Snitches & Rats (Interlude) 21 Savage 2 years ago Hip Hop 1.46M 15.4K 306 21 Savage Verified 1.46M 261 Follow Report They may promise to "help" you if you agree to become an informant. Thank God the FBI saved us from them.". They're just possibilities: Spread the word. HISTORICAL ways of dealing with known snitches Copyright Edit. After all, you're just a snitch. It is a method of interview and interrogation (read: psychological manipulation) specifically designed to produce confessions. He loses his reputation unjustly. If you are strongly opposed to snitches and snitching, tell your lawyer up front that, whatever else happens, you're not going to do that. The only things you should ever say to a police officer are things like these: You should never lie to a cop because that in itself may be a crime. So remember these three key points: 1) The police are not your friends and do not want to help you; 2) If you don't trust yourself to remain silent, demand a lawyer (you can do so at any time); and 3) if you feel you just have to talk don't lie, qualify and especially if you're innocent, deny, deny, deny. These days, anything out of the ordinary can make you a target. The advice in this booklet can lessen the chance of that, but nobody can give you any guarantees. "The people's mind-set was no more turning the other cheek," King said of the film's 1968 setting. If the date changes you should start a new date with the weather.