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Do you buy the snitch report?

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Does the area you live in have a "snitch report"?

Every Monday a new issue of Crime Times can be purchased for a dollar at any local gas station. The magazine is roughly 15 pages & contains the previous week's mug shots. Below every booking picture is the person's full name and charges recieved. The magazine is extremely popular and insanely lucrative.

Crime Times has caused quite the uproar in it's 25+ years of publication.
How would you feel about your mugshot being not only publicly accessible but exploited for the purpose of entertainment and income?
 
Crime Times? That's ridiculous... it's not that I find it offensive so much as I find it, well, pretty stupid.

I mean, I can't imagine that most people make interesting and/or funny faces in their mug shots, so, for the most part, it's just a person's name, their picture, and charges? And what are the charges, exactly? Check forgery, right? And larceny? Harassment? Nearly all of the charges are likely to be just petty theft, violating a restraining order and such, so it all sounds so boring and stupid to me.

They publish arrests in the newspaper anyway, and so the only real difference between "Crime Times" and the local paper publishing your charges is... a mugshot. (shrugs) No big deal...
 
Our newspapers do not have anything like that.
The information is being printed in Crime Times so there's no reason to report it, I suppose.

& Yes, the mug shots are usually idiotic and easy to make fun of. Some pictures are down right scary. The crimes are mostly drug and theft related.
I don't buy a copy, not ever. I'm not against it's circulation or anything... I just don't enjoy looking at other peoples mis fortune or documented mistakes. It isn't healthy to find enjoyment in something so negative.

It generates a large profit through sales and advertising. I really thought these types of magazines were all over the US, but I don't ever hear about them.
 
I imagine it would be a fun read but it only serves to further marginalize and stigmatize those who are already on the edge of society.
 
We've got something like this here in my area too. It's called "Cuffed." It's got all the mugshots and shit, and then the counties "most wanted" and whatever other bullshit. On the back page though, its got real estate auctions... so if you're looking for that surprisingly cheap forclosed/seized house... there you go.
 
Yeah they have it in my area at the gas station counter. I find it fairly repulsive. Plus if the person is snitching the cops wont load there picture and name into the database. Cops are sometimes dumb but rarely that dumb
 
It's called "The Slammer" back home; my sister made the front page once rofl. I've only seen one other copy & recognised a kid I went to high school from. I've been wondering if I recently made the one up here... I looked on-line but my mugshot isn't available thankfully.
 
Our local paper just lists the names, addresses and convictions of cases that week. Dunno how they choose who makes it to print though, because it's normally only like 2 people, and there are a lot more convictions being handed out than that each week.

Reading this thread out to the room, someone said they'd buy it if it were around because if you see a guy in there busted for say, dealing weed, you know what he looks like, and when he gets out if you see him round town you may well have a shiny new connection.

The magazine does sound a bit evil though. It seems like it would generate/bring out/satisfy a lot of the worst kinds of feelings communities can have towards criminals. Perfect for the 'good' people to snigger at or get a cheap kick of fear and excitement from, a great way to hand recognition and a sense of local underground fame to criminals, a great way for lawbreakers to concisely keep up-to-date with who's in and who is out in the neighbourhood, and frankly, if they had them in my area, getting featured in it and having a copy to keep would definitely have become one of my drunken missions, and I am soooo not the only one.
 
I've been reading/hearing more and more about judges (usually in small towns) dishing out public humiliation instead of jail time/fines/community service. Not sure how I feel about this. Call me old-school but I thought jail/prison was for learning how to function in society and / or paying your debt back to society.
 
My local paper lists a couple of the convictions from the local court each week; just a name, the area they're from, what they did and the punishment. A whole seperate magazine dedicated to it sounds a bit crazy though.
 
they have it in my area like 80% of the mug shots are drugs charges
in the back the have a section for the rapists/pedos
 
I don't buy it, and I don't exactly know how I feel about it. One side of me wants to say that it's an invasion of privacy, and the other part of me says that the tax payers have a right to know where their dollars are going to. I'd love to see how others feel about this, whether they agree or disagree with either of my points made here.

My uncle's mugshot was printed in a local newspaper after he was arrested for methamphetamine trafficking, and even though he was clearly wrong in his actions, he was and still is our family member and it was very offensive to see him alienated like that.
 
I've never seen anything like this. Where are you guys located? I do read the police blotters, but there are never any pictures.
 
^they had a police blotter in the local paper where my parents live in Maryland but when I was in Arkansas my buddy showed me their version of this and I was shocked. Seems like a more southern/midwestern thing, I can't see people in the NE spending money on this...
 
they have that here too. its called "just busted" it contains most, if not all bookings from the previous week. no one or charge is exempt. you have people that have charges from DUI to first degree murder. Name, mugshot, and charges listed. whether convicted or not.
 
It's called the Jailhouse Times where I'm at. Has all the counties in the state and features a special area with color pictures for the sex offnedors, Dui's(Tanked), and meth realated(Tweaker Feature) stuff. It cost a dollar,never can bring myself to buy it(just look through it sometimes), although a lot of people do buy it ..
 
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