The Push Toward a Snitch Culture: New App Enables "fast, discrete, and intelligent" Anonymous Crime Reporting

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Brandon Turbeville

Activist Post

In yet another Smartphone-related push to increase the intensity of the global police state, a “new” company, CrimePush, has released a smartphone app that will allow individuals greater ability to report “crimes” in real time.

The CrimePush app, which is now available on iTunes, is being touted as “the latest in mobile technology to provide urban populations with fast, discrete, and intelligent safety assistance.” This follows on the heels of similar Big Brother apps such as PatriotApp, which merged phones with American security and law enforcement agencies via the Internet, allowing for one-touch reporting of suspicious activities that could be perceived as threats to the Homeland.

Essentially, after the free app is downloaded, one need only access the app in order to record and report a crime to police. As Anushay Hossein of Forbes describes, “A package of information including the location of the crime, photo, video, audio, and text description of the crime are sent to authorities immediately. The application also allows for users to report crime anonymously so that they may continue with their busy lives knowing that with a push of a button, police will know and have everything to pursue the criminal.”

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Rat Out A Cheat, Collect A Reward

"In a down economy, the temptation to cheat on taxes is much stronger because people are in more desperate situations more often," said Bill Raabe, a tax expert at Ohio State University's business school.

More people may be just as desperate to turn in a business, rat out an ex–spouse or report a colleague to collect a reward.

Small–time crooks: The IRS's informant program has been around for more than 140 years. If you suspect a person is committing tax fraud and report it, you could receive up to 15% of the amount that has been underpaid, with a maximum award of $10 million.

Informants are required to complete a claim, which is available on the IRS Web site, and mail it to the agency or call the IRS tip line at 1–800–829–0433. While you must reveal your identity to the IRS, your name will not be made public.

Because there is no minimum requirement for the amount in question, anyone can file a report in hopes of making an extra buck off of a cheating boyfriend or obnoxious neighbor...

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Becoming An IRS Informant Can Make You Money

BOSTON (FOX 25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A fancy car, a new house, a dream vacation, all from money awarded by the federal government? It may be difficult to come by, but not impossible. In fact, one person got a five million dollar check from dropping a dime, or in this case, submitting IRS form 211. The form is for the IRS Whistleblower Informant Award. If you report a tax cheat, the IRS might actually pay up to ten million dollars for your information.

The reward has been around since the 60s, but a few years ago the rules changed. The IRS is now required by law to pay whistleblowers up to 30% for information, if it collects two million dollars or more. “Its probably not an endeavor for amateurs,” says Edward DeFrancheschi, a prominent Boston tax attorney who once worked for the IRS. He is currently representing a whistleblower who is hoping for a pay out. He says it is a long and involved process and informants have to go all in, “you have to give a lot of details about yourself. You have to identify yourself. Anonymous complaints, I’ve been told, are historic dead ends. People come in with an anonymous complaint never gets anywhere,” DeFranceschi says...

Bullying - Used To Develop Snitching Mentality

Students Ranked On List Of Bullies

SPENCER, Mass. (FOX25 / MyFoxBoston.com) - A local school asked students to rank the bullies in their school and then used that list to determine which students would be punished.

Students at The Wire Village School in Spencer were asked to rank students they thought were bullies in a survey distributed by the school at the request of the principal.

Mother Danielle Gebo said she recieved a call from the school unexpectedly saying her son was "ranked" as one of the top bullies at school. She says the school should have followed up claims with an investigation into allegations made by a class of sixth graders before taking disciplinary action.

Parent Of Pupil On "Bully List" Feels Her Son Was Bullied By The School

SPENCER — The mother of an 11-year-old student at Wire Village School said an effort to target bullying there has her feeling her son is being bullied by school officials.

Danielle L. Gebo said she was surprised to hear from the school principal Monday that her son, Thomas J. Gebo, a sixth-grader, ranked in the top six students known for bullying classmates, and that he would be punished because other students had voted for him in a bullying survey conducted in his grade.

“I was told that on Tuesday he would have to report to the cafeteria with the others who met the criteria,” she said. Thomas was kept inside at recess and closely monitored until his mother contacted School Superintendent Ralph E. Hicks, who was unaware of the situation and went to the school, which serves students in Grades 4, 5 and 6, to put an end to the punishment...

[Webmaster - The subject of "bullying" is used to train and develop "spykid" snitches, who will someday be adult snitches. George Orwell talks about this in "1984".]