The leaflets advertise a website - Stop Snitching - which urges potential informants to refuse to co-operate with the authorities.
It also urged people not to trust Trident, which investigates gun crime in London and has particular expertise in black gunmen and victims.
The leaflets have been left around the Pelican Estate, in Peckham, south east London, where 17-year-old Sylvester Akapalara was shot dead last month.
Investigators offered potential witnesses protection and anonymity if they came forward in the hours after the attack.
Sylvester died after being chased into a stairwell in Heron House. Three teenagers have since been charged with murder.
The leaflets highlight the difficulties police often face in winning the trust of potential witnesses of violent crimes linked to gangs. Their message echoes a notorious 2004 campaign called Stop Snitchin' launched in Baltimore, United States."
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