Can you explain "pay gun criminals to stay out of trouble"?
Wouldn't that encourage people to commit gun crime so they can then collect a pay check?
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Can you explain "pay gun criminals to stay out of trouble"?
Wouldn't that encourage people to commit gun crime so they can then collect a pay check?
No, because it's not very much and it's only for those who have already served their sentences and committed multiple gun crimes. Essentially they identify those people who are repeat gun offenders, the population that commits 90%+ of gun crimes, and after they go through the criminal justice system they offer them a choice of entering this program where they get like $1000 a month as long as they don't commit crimes and participate in counseling and job skills and make a life plan and such. In a large city with a bad gang problem this is a total of 50 individuals. When they implement this program gun homicides drop by like 80%. about 1 in 10,000 people qualify.
Those are amazing results. Do you know the links to any articles where I can read more about these types of programs?
pick your poison:
https://www.bing.com/search?q=richmond+ca+gun+violence+program&form=EDGTCT&qs=PF&cvid=09f23b7657f847e4b83ab9d7303e3ae7&refig=f04a08885d934a6bcfe2a4ab79893b4b&cc=US&setlang=en-US&PC=DCTE
These two articles give a lot of info and perspective:
http://www.nccdglobal.org/sites/default/files/publication_pdf/ons-process-evaluation.pdf
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2014/06/richmond-california-murder-rate-gun-death/
From reading them, I am not sure if it scalable or it is dependent on unique circumstances and people.
I am going to read some more.
I think the idea of identifying those tiny fraction who do almost all the gun crime and locking them up for a while and also offering them some way out of that lifestyle makes a lot of sense, otherwise they will just keep shooting people, I think it's a lot cheaper too in the long run. Dead bodies and murder cases cost money. We will have to see how it works in Sacramento, that's a city of 500,000.