CA mayor to offer $1K/mo stipend to "those most likely to shoot somebody"
http://hotair.com/archives/2018/05/29/ca-mayor-offer-1k-mo-stipend-likely-shoot-somebody/
Wait ... WHAT???!!!
"Stockton is about to award stipends of up to $1,000 a month to residents deemed most likely to shoot somebody. This program is called Advance Peace, and it's modeled after a crime reduction program in the Bay Area city of Richmond."
You see, the theory here is that only a small number of people are responsible for a large portion of the violence in the community. They would be the really hardcore gangbangers who are most prone to see violence as a solution. If you can get them to stop shooting people, a big chunk of your gun violence problem goes away. At this point, you're probably thinking to yourself, holy cow! How did nobody else think of this already? But examining the idea a bit further, you might begin to wonder whether or not this might be seen as some sort of reward program for violent felons. Never you fear. Mayor Tubbs wants you to know that it's nothing of the kind.
"Let me be clear, Advance Peace is not a get out of jail free card," Tubbs wrote in explaining the program on Stockton's public safety website. "Participating in this program doesn't erase the past, but it does help these young men learn how to make better choices for their own and our community's collective future."
We've discussed the idea of Basic Guaranteed Income here in the past and I'm not going to wade back in and cover the same territory. But "Advance Peace?" I'm guessing that the only way to identify people who are "the most likely to shoot somebody" would be to select candidates from a pool of people who have some, er ... experience in that area. And if they're already shooting people, don't you have some other sort of public service program they'd qualify for? I think it's called "prison" or something like that. ...
WOW ... libtards are simply dangerously STOOOOOOOPID!
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