Usually, a criminal is punished after they commit a crime, but it appears that’s not the case in California, in fact, their latest attempt to curb crime sounds like bribery. They are paying criminals a small sum to prevent them from committing crimes. It is like a protection racket. Pay them or else face the consequences, and taxpayers are picking up the tab.
“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.”
San Fransico is incentivizing crime. Criminals are getting fringe benefits for being upstanding citizens. So Taxpayers are paying people to be good… Is that voluntary robbery? This is just how backward the true blue state is, only in California would they pay criminals not to commit crimes.