Georgia Tech Robberies

[brownhornet]

See one thing about the stop snitchin rule is people take it out of context. Even though I don't agree with it, it basically meant that when someone committed a crime and got caught that they shouldn't be rolling over on anyone else to get their sentence reduced. It wasn't meant for situations like someone sees a murder and isn't supposed to tell what they saw... but unfortunately that's what its been translated to.

But one thing you have to understand is that even for those that do want to tell, they fear retaliation and know that the law enforcement won't be able to protect them. And its not as if you can keep it a secret because they make the court documents public almost all of the time and its as easy as requesting the court documents or just going to the trial for the persons friends to find out exactly who it was that told. These people then have to go back and live in that same neighborhood because if it isn't a federal case there will be no witness protection.

So in the end telling what you see can often put you in the ground right beside the person you testified for in court and most just don't want to risk that. It was the same way in my neighborhood... something goes down you didn't see anything and kept walking. Sad reality but I definitely understood.

Back in 94 I think it was... something exactly like that happened to this dude I went to school with mother. She testified against this dude that sold crack in the projects because he had one of her kids working for her. Two weeks after the trial they found her body on the railroad tracks and never found half of her torso or a suspect. Everyone in the hood knew what happened but after seeing that who was gonna tell?

[BringBackCobain]

Originally Posted by DeaconJ

Yes, one incident definitely makes the area "bad".

Um, well I hate to break it to you, but this forum does not contain every citizen of Atlanta as a member. The fact that someone on this online forum, which has a membership that probably makes up a tiny percentage of the city population, was the victim of a crime in that area says a lot about the area's safety.

[brownhornet]

So if one person gets assaulted in Buckhead, Dunwoody, Roswell, Peachtree City or Sandy Springs does that mean its a bad area? Not to be insensitive to the poster but crime happens everywhere in one form or another. That doesn't make it a bad area.

There have been a couple of incidents in Smyrna but that doesn't make me feel unsafe here.