Harvey Keitel questions Isaiah Washington in Spike Lee's Clockers (1995)

Word Problems: The Snitch's Dilemma

Busted Headphones

[5 January 2007]

by Quentin B. Huff

What if you and your friend were arrested and you were offered leniency in exchange for information about your friend or "the streets"? The hip-hop community believes the very existence of the deal begs us to reconsider our concepts of loyalty and law enforcement.

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