Posted on 02/02/2016 5:11:35 PM PST by TigerClaws
They say crime doesn't pay, but that might not be entirely true in the District of Columbia as lawmakers look for ways to discourage people from becoming repeat offenders.
The D.C. Council voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a bill that includes a proposal to pay residents a stipend not to commit crimes. It's based on a program in Richmond, California, that advocates say has contributed to deep reductions in crime there.
Under the bill, city officials would identify up to 200 people a year who are considered at risk of either committing or becoming victims of violent crime. Those people would be directed to participate in behavioral therapy and other programs. If they fulfill those obligations and stay out of trouble, they would be paid.
The bill doesn't specify the value of the stipends, but participants in the California program receive up to $9,000 per year.
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LIBs are truly mentally ill.
Sounds like extortion to me: “Pay me money and something bad might not happen.”
YO! Send me money and I promise not to commit a crime. ;-)
This is stupid.
OK, I won’t commit any crimes. Pay me.
So first you have to be a criminal.
The gov’t wouldn’t be paying them to not commit crimes. It would be paying them to not get caught.
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Like Monty Python the Piranna Brothers :
” They threatened to beat me up if I paid the ransom”.
CA better pay me my $9,000/year when I retire or I will.....
haven’t been for a long time.
is it retroactive? :)
Paying criminals not to commit crime.
They already pay people not to work.
Where do I sign up?
They don’t need to pay . Just say “no free stuff” if you, your spouse, or your kids commit a crime. I don’t know why we don’t already say that.
I am owed considerable backpay — I’ve spent over 50 years not committing crime.
#Not committing crime does not pay.
If they send me 5,000 a year I promise not to bring down their website or do any other mischief...
If we get enough cities doing this, I can make a living not doing anything bad...
Liberalism = mental disease
Just 200?
I can think of ...535+2+9=546 prominent ones, and that doesn't even take it to the Cabinet...
Reparations. ...correct? Wow. My mom is entitled land due to our Cherokee heritage. She didn’t take it. She said that the gov will just take it back.
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