Want to make some extra cash? If you are a criminal, all you have to do is not kill anyone and progressive cities like Richmond, California and Washington D.C. will actually pay you! That’s right, progressive liberal cities are now paying people not to commit murder, and your tax dollars are paying for it. Miami, Toledo and Baltimore may be the next set of progressive cities to try the pay for not killing rule. This is what’s become of this country in the twenty first century under progressives. Sad.
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But when Holmes was released from prison last year, officials in this city offered something unusual to try to keep him alive: money. They began paying Holmes as much as $1,000 a month not to commit another gun crime.
Cities across the country, beginning with the District of Columbia, are moving to copy Richmond’s controversial approach because early indications show it has helped reduce homicide rates.
But the program requires governments to reject some basic tenets of law enforcement even as it challenges notions of appropriate ways to spend tax dollars.
In Richmond, the city has hired ex-convicts to mentor dozens of its most violent offenders and allows them to take unconventional steps if it means preventing the next homicide.
For example, the mentors have coaxed inebriated teenagers threatening violence into city cars, not for a ride to jail but home to sleep it off — sometimes with loaded firearms still in their waistbands. The mentors have funded trips to South Africa, London and Mexico City for rival gang members in the hope that shared experiences and time away from the city streets would ease tensions and forge new connections.
While you are working your ass off just to get buy, criminal progressives get paid $1,000 per month just to obey the law. Welcome to Obama’s AmeriKa.