Despite the underworld prohibition on snitching, everybody seems to snitch eventually.
Leaflets had been distributed locally warning people: "Don't snitch".
A corrections officer, Darmea McCoy, pegged her for the other inmates as a snitch, accelerating the assault.
The major basis for suspecting Griggs and Johnson killed Rondeau was the word of a snitch named Eugene Hawes.
To aid detection, the DoJ developed a leniency programme that provides incentives for companies to confess and snitch on rivals.
The second-best outcome came when all four decided not to snitch.
Equally disturbing is a new snitch scheme set up by the justice ministry.
Certainly there were plenty of people in black neighborhoods who refused to "snitch" twenty years ago (or fifty).
The snitch has not been unmasked, while several prominent figures have been quick to say that they were not present.
That bit of graft looks like mere mischief now, as Brazil's worst political scandal for fifteen years swells to cinematic proportions.Much of it has been scripted by a single snitch, Roberto Jefferson, a rogue former government ally.
Individually, they could choose (without being able to talk to the others) either to snitch on their team-mates or to stand by them.
