The plague of silence that is destroying Chicago neighborhoods -- don't talk to the cops or you're a "snitch" -- is even more deeply ingrained than we had understood.
That, we believe, is the lesson to be drawn from Tuesday's Sun-Times story about a dying teen who refused to say who had shot him.
"I know," Robert Tate, 17, told the police, "but I ain't telling you s - - -."
Maybe we shouldn't be surprised. Tate had been walking on the wrong side of the road himself, with a long juvenile rap sheet for drugs, weapons and car theft.
But the Chicago Police tell us the street's "code of silence" is too often honored …
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