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Policy

New Blog on Snitching

Radley Balko | 8.16.2009 3:28 PM

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Alexandra Natapoff is probably the leading academic expert in the country on the use of informants by law enforcement.

She just started a blog devoted to the issue. Well worth adding to your RSS feed if you're interested in criminal justice and drug policy.

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Radley Balko is a journalist at The Washington Post.

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  1. Plant Immigration Rights Suppo   17 years ago

    I hope there is a post about the White House snitch site.

  2. Plant Immigration Rights Suppo   17 years ago

    http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/facts-are-stubborn-things/

  3. Paul Cooper   17 years ago

    I went to the snitching.org website but there are no RSS feed options displayed.
    Too bad because it does look like it will be a good resource.

  4. hmm   17 years ago

    Reported to Whitehouse.gov for being unpatriotic and evil not a viable learning moment.

  5. The Libertarian Guy   17 years ago

    That's "teachable moment", hmm. Report immediately to the Ministry of Noggin Readjustment.

  6. hmm   17 years ago

    Opps, I'm having trouble transitioning from "evil axises" and "enemy combatants" to the gentler kinder "teaching moments," "hope," and "change."

    This is worse than internet acronyms.

  7. Naga Sadow   17 years ago

    Where can I snitch on LoneWacko? I would like to make an anonymous tip about how he is harboring IllegalMexicans.

  8. The Libertarian Guy   17 years ago

    Not to fret, hmm, Newspeak is catching on. You'll submit to it soon enough. Just remember to ask for an extra shot of anaesthesia before they take the melon baller to your frontal lobes.

  9. Sen. Chuck Schumer   17 years ago

    Dearest comrades:

    As the dimmest sack of crap in elected office, even I still know enough about the health-care bill to tell you lobotomies are not considered elective surgery under the Obama reform plan.

    Rest assured, once this corrective procedure is done, you will be as fuck-stupid as I am, but you won't be able to actually vote on the leagislation I vote on, and to boot you'll have to stand in line for a week to get that arm-severed-by-wheat-thresher wound looked at. My colleagues and I, however, will continue to have the best hangnail-care specialists on 24-hour call... at your expense.

    Now, don't forget to eat healthy, and exercise. Don't make us come over to your house and force you.

    Sincerely,

    Sen. Chuck Schumer

    (transcribed from crayon-on-wax-paper notes by Robert Gates' personal assistant, Wally the Intern)

  10. Spelling Nazi   17 years ago

    Ha-ha, Schumer so stoopid, can't spell "legislation". Dur-hur!

    Wait, someone's knocking at the doo

    BLAM BLAM BLAM

    "Stop or we'll shoo- oh, hell, did it again."

    "Not to worry, Jim, soon we'll have all these teabaggin' rabble-rousers shoved into the train cars. Let's go grab a tofu burger."

  11. Naga Sadow   17 years ago

    Snitchin' is bitchin'

  12.   17 years ago

    And when they came for the cosmotarians, I said, "He's next door. Take him away. Damn treasonous bastard!".

  13.   17 years ago

    # must have government privileges; he posts date- and timelessly. Whoa.

  14.   17 years ago

    Anybody can do that.# is just one of the legions of # wannabees

  15. Waaah!   17 years ago

    I wanna do it too! How-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how-how?

  16. Senator Harry Reid   17 years ago

    As the dimmest sack of crap in elected office,

    Dear Chuck,

    I beg to differ with your claim to being the dimmest. Surely that honor must go either to myself or to Nancy Pelosi.

    Love,

    Harry.

  17. Art-P.O.G.   17 years ago

    Donnie Brasco put me off ever wanting to be an informant.

  18. stopdrugwar   17 years ago

    I can't get yahoo to recognize the site to add it. Does someone have the rss link they can send me?

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