you went the wrong way... you admitted you were guilty. Therefore, you can get the ticket.
The cops decide that in return for information from you, they will drop the charges/ticket. Happens every day. That's business as usual. Ever hear of plea bargains? (in exchange for testimony against the leader, lower level people get a reduced sentence, etc.)
Nonetheless, I saw those pictures. You've gotta be kidding? That's damage??
While I was RA, in one night, while I was off to a movie with a hot girl on campus, the following happened:
250 pound bike rack hopelessly lodged in stairwell, damaging cinder blocks.
Bathroom drains stuffed/blocked... all showers and sinks turned on. West stairwell became a waterfall (and several rooms had up to 1 1/2 or 2 inches of water in them... apparently the building wasn't perfectly level, but 2 inches over 100 feet isn't too bad. Maybe they planned to have runoff in just such an event)
One kids door completely axed apart (I never found out who "axeman" was, but someone had that nickname the rest of the year; it was a secret guarded from me however.) Several other doors had axe damage.
30? 40? empty cans of shaving cream.
Bathroom stall... the entire bathroom stall... thrown through the huge window, destroying window frame and all.
Fire-alarm ripped from wall (this created an incident later when someone set my neighbors door on fire... the entire dorm evacuated except the residents of my floor who slept through it... Fire burned itself out after his trophies (written warnings, etc.) had finished burning. The kid would have been thrown out of school, but daddy paid cash for his tuition and donated a lot of $$ to the school. Hence, he had a lot of trophies and got away with it.
Stop sign. Not just the sign though, but the entire stop sign, pole, and 200 pounds of concrete were in the bathroom. Not just a normal sized one from in the city, but a big one from a highway meant to be seen from a distance. Oddly, after I took a shower with the stopsign in the morning, it disappeared 10 minutes later, without a trace. I never figured out where it went.
And the final thing that happened that night... The RA returned to the dorm, hand in hand with previously mentioned desireable member of the opposite sex, thinking "I'm getting lucky tonight!" Girl leaves dorm 3 minutes later as RA all but has a nervous breakdown.
I never found out who did the damage. As a result, the entire floor had to split the costs. I can't believe that there wasn't one of them who wanted to avoid paying 1/30th of the cost by giving names.
However, you have pictures of some pretty drawings on the wall and a chair duct taped to the wall? Pathetic.
Also, you say that some of them are going to be kicked out next year for the damages, and that seems all right to you? But, how will they be kicked out (and they should be) if no one comes forth to give the names?
The way I see it, if you see a crime being committed and you refuse to help police when they ask for help, you're just as bad as the people committing the crime. If they're really "friends", you can say to them, "you broke the window. Be a man and admit it to the RA... pay the consequences, probably pay for the window. But, I'm sure as he** not going to stand here and help pay for the window because you chose to be an idiot."