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Sacramento Plans to pay gang members $1.5M to keep the peace.
FOX News ^ | September 1, 2017 | Benjamin Brown

Posted on 09/04/2017 4:16:20 PM PDT by Tammy8

How bad has gun violence gotten in Sacramento, Calif.? City leaders now plan to pay gang members $1.5 million for a cease-fire. Following a fatal shooting last weekend in a city park, the Sacramento city council unanimously approved a controversial program called Advance Peace in an effort to address a recent spike in violence. The program offers gang members cash stipends for graduating from school and generally staying out of trouble.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: banglist; california; gang; violence; wtf
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To: Tammy8

I fully expect CA government to start strafing the tax payers.


21 posted on 09/04/2017 4:26:56 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: catpuppy

four word:

Midnight knock-out game


22 posted on 09/04/2017 4:26:58 PM PDT by a fool in paradise (Did Barack Obama denounce Communism and dictatorships when he visited Cuba as a puppet of the State?)
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To: Tammy8

“The program offers gang members cash stipends for graduating from school and generally staying out of trouble.”

Rewarding criminals — that just encourages them.


23 posted on 09/04/2017 4:28:03 PM PDT by Innovative ("Winning isn't everything, it's the only thing." -- Vince Lombardi)
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To: Tammy8

What you subsidize you will get more of.


24 posted on 09/04/2017 4:28:46 PM PDT by Leaning Right (I have already previewed or do not wish to preview this composition.)
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To: Tammy8

Leave it liberals to create a new government job.

If the pay isn’t good enough, then work twice as hard, and get twice the pay.

Or, don’t work at all and just threaten to do the work, and get paid for doing nothing.

Stupidity knows no bounds with liberals.

The idea will attract a lot more criminals, and Sacramento will just have to add the payoffs to their debt, sorta like the federal government “pays” for that which they can’t pay.


25 posted on 09/04/2017 4:29:04 PM PDT by adorno (w)
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To: Tammy8

If you know who they are why not just feed them into a wood chipper head first?


26 posted on 09/04/2017 4:29:50 PM PDT by Eddie01
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

How did that work out for Chino?


27 posted on 09/04/2017 4:30:49 PM PDT by tennmountainman ("Prophet Mountainman" Predicter Of All Things RINO...for a small fee.)
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To: Tammy8
Really! CA is really a hippy's paradise where official nonsense reigns.

BTW, "paying gang members to keep the peace" didn't work so well for the Rolling Stones who hired the Hell's Angels for security guards at the Altamont, CA concert as some of them assaulted a band member, some of the audience, and four people were killed including one that was stabbed to death.

http://wzlx.cbslocal.com/2014/12/06/rolling-stones-hells-angels-altamont-1969/

28 posted on 09/04/2017 4:33:03 PM PDT by Jim W N
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Did it work?


29 posted on 09/04/2017 4:33:32 PM PDT by Maine Mariner
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To: Tammy8

White vs. Black vs Brown vs the Irish. Sons of Anarchy territory.


30 posted on 09/04/2017 4:34:51 PM PDT by ichabod1 (Smoke does not mean fire when someone threw a smoke grenade.)
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To: ptsal

“Hi. I’m here for my gang money.”

“Which gang do you belong to?”

“Uh, we’re up on the north side.”

“Do you have any weapons?”

“Yeah, we got like a piano and a guitar.”

“Wait a minute. Are you in a gang or a band?”

“No....no....we’re a gang. We need gang money.”

“How else would we know that this is a gang?”

“Well, we got colors, man.”

“Really? Like everyone wears the same color?”

“Yeah, we all wear blue....blue robes.”

“You’re a member of a church choir aren’t you?”

“So, our alto section carries switchblades. Where’s the dough?”


31 posted on 09/04/2017 4:36:04 PM PDT by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Jim 0216
Actually, the Hell's Angels were the one's who stopped the AH waving the gun around in front of the stage...If not for the Angels, there could have been lots of dead people. Btw, the Angel who took out the AH with the gun, was acquitted. ☺
32 posted on 09/04/2017 4:37:17 PM PDT by dragnet2 (Diversion and evasion are tools of deceit)
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To: Tammy8

Real, live, no foolin’ Danegeld.


33 posted on 09/04/2017 4:37:37 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Tammy8

Call it what you will cowardice is always ugly.


34 posted on 09/04/2017 4:37:52 PM PDT by Seruzawa (TANSTAAFL!)
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To: Tammy8

No one learns poetry from politically incorrect white males any more.

Rudyard Kipling

Dane-Geld

A.D. 980-1016
It is always a temptation to an armed and agile nation
To call upon a neighbour and to say: —
“We invaded you last night—we are quite prepared to fight,
Unless you pay us cash to go away.”

And that is called asking for Dane-geld,
And the people who ask it explain
That you’ve only to pay ‘em the Dane-geld
And then you’ll get rid of the Dane!

It is always a temptation for a rich and lazy nation,
To puff and look important and to say: —
“Though we know we should defeat you, we have not the time to meet you.
We will therefore pay you cash to go away.”

And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
But we’ve proved it again and again,
That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
You never get rid of the Dane.

It is wrong to put temptation in the path of any nation,
For fear they should succumb and go astray;
So when you are requested to pay up or be molested,
You will find it better policy to say: —

“We never pay any-one Dane-geld,
No matter how trifling the cost;
For the end of that game is oppression and shame,
And the nation that pays it is lost!”


35 posted on 09/04/2017 4:39:23 PM PDT by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: Jim 0216

wasn’t the concert peaceful after the killings?


36 posted on 09/04/2017 4:39:35 PM PDT by morphing libertarian (Imprison Obama, Clintons, Holder, lynch now.)
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To: Tammy8

Stupid stupid stupid.


37 posted on 09/04/2017 4:40:42 PM PDT by Ray76 (Republicans are a Democrat party front group.)
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To: tennmountainman

I think he was talking about the prison there.


38 posted on 09/04/2017 4:43:36 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: Tammy8

You get more of what you reward, not what you think you’re rewarding. In this case, they think they’re rewarding peace but what they’re actually rewarding is gang membership. More of which, they will get.


39 posted on 09/04/2017 4:44:49 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: FreedomPoster

Similarly, paying the Dane-geld to China will get them to rein in their obnoxious little Nork lap dog.


40 posted on 09/04/2017 4:46:04 PM PDT by omega4412
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