There are all sorts of methods to prevent crime. There is the idea not to keep anything expensive visible in your car, nothing in plain sight. They also have all sorts of urban design that is supposed to prevent crime. It involves very open designs that don’t provide areas for criminals to hide in. But these ideas make sense. San Francisco on the other hand has come up with the bonehead idea to start paying criminals not to commit crimes…
“A new program in San Fransisco will pay people at high risk of shooting someone not to pull the trigger to help alleviate rising gun violence in the city.
The Dream Keeper Fellowship is set to launch in October and pay 10 individuals $300 each month to not be involved in shootings, Sheryl Davis, executive director of the Human Rights Commission, told Newsweek in an interview Tuesday.
“It’s not necessarily as cut and dry as folks may think. It’s not as transactional as, ‘Here’s a few dollars so that you don’t do something bad,’ but it really is about how you help us improve public safety in the neighborhood,” she said.
Participants will be paired with life coaches from the city’s Street Violence Intervention Program and will be considered “community ambassadors” who work to prevent violence. They will work on their professional, personal, and community development and will be thought of as “partners” in engaging community members and decreasing violence.
The program aims to get to the “root causes” of violence, “which in so many ways are economic,” according to Davis.
There are opportunities for participants to earn an additional $200 each month as they work to improve their community.”
I get what they are trying to do, but the plan sounds like it would create more criminals, as opposed to getting rid of them. It’s a free $500/month not to shoot someone…
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