Only In California: Sacramento To Pay Gang Bangers If They Stop Killing People

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2017-09-01/only-california-sacramento-pay-gang-bangers-cash-stipend-if-they-stop-killing-people

After a violent weekend of suspected gang-related shootings, Tuesday the Sacramento City Council took action to reduce the bloodshed.

It approved a controversial program called Advance Peace, which offers cash stipends to gang members who remain peaceful.

“Let’s get going on doing everything we can to save innocent lives,” Steinberg said.

The program targets key gang agitators, offering them cash stipends to graduate school and remain peaceful. It already claims success in dropping crime rates in Richmond. But the city would still have to pay half the cost of the program, $1.5 million out of the city’s general fund.

In the end, the council agreed to the program, voting 9-0 in favor.

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SatanBurger · 36-40, F

Anyone who says that's going to bring crime down doesn't understand how gangs operate. First gangs are a corporation. I wish I could re-find it but there's a good article about how gangs operate like a corporation. There's a few scholarly articles on the hierarchy of gangs. The only difference between how a corporation is run and a gang, is that in a gang your boss can kill you. Even if you are retired and you are luckier than most to make it your 50s, you are still in the gang at least a little and stuff is still required of you. Like gee California thinks if the gang members witness murders, you think their just going to let you go? Like they just frolic in the fields and shit? All paying them money is going to do is bring in more money for their gang. Their not going to do shit with it. Gangs [b]require DUES.[/b] This will bring in money for them. Of course they will make it appear that the study "works."

Second, gangs have this thing and the name changes based on the gang but gangs have some children specifically to raise them as gang members. They indoctrinate them and get them ready for adulthood similar to that of children in cults. Paying individual gang members who are already in gangs is doing nothing to dismantle the actual hierarchy of gang [b]CULT[/b]ure.