From "De Blasio’s plan to give a grand a month to violent offenders is insane" (NY Post).
August 16, 2021
"Through an outfit called 'Advance Peace,' the city will offer a stipend of $1,000 per month ('transformational opportunities') to 'young men involved in lethal firearm offenses'..."
"... at the same time pairing them with 'neighborhood-change agents' — 'credible messengers, meaning they bring life experience, conflict-mediation and mentorship skills to the target population.' "
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Pretty good incentive to go shoot up a neighborhood in your spare time.
“If you want more of something, subsidize it; if you want less of something, tax it.”
Attributed to Reagan, but I'm sure it was said before him…
If they nuke a city do they get a million dollars?
Go 'Death Star' on a planet and get a billion?
Hmmm...I have the number of Grand Moff Tarkin somewhere...
I'm about to repeat myself.
We have the least competent, most mediocre leaders in our history. And the people of New York thought it would be better to vote for The Party than to vote for competency.
Enjoy the bed you've made.
is he forming his own private Army? $1,000 a month is pretty cheap wages for professional killers
Murder subsidies.
Sounds like a great way to get a lot of do gooder ex-con mentors shot. So, is the mayor considering taking the guns from the murderers before turning them loose on the neighborhoods. Nah, probably not - anyone thinking this is a reasonable course of action probably hasn't thought that far down stream.
First thing they teach in economics in places that still teach traditional economics- people respond to incentives...
Shooting it forward?
The British Raj, concerned about the number of cobras in Delhi, offered a bounty for every dead cobra. Initially, this was a successful strategy; large numbers of snakes were killed for the reward. Eventually, however, enterprising people began to breed cobras for the income. When the government became aware of this, the reward program was scrapped. When cobra breeders set their now-worthless snakes free, the wild cobra population further increased...
Of course it is insane. Anyone involved in killing other people should be in prison.
How could this idea not work?
This is known as leaning into a left hook.
The neighborhood change agents sound like replacement fathers.
DOA, if you will excuse the expression.
Old
Use a gun go to prison
New
Use a gun get a grand
Can anybody else see how insane they are??? Seriously, this is what he came up with?
The '60s didn't work in the '70s. Maybe they will work in the '20s.
In Chicago we have a program like that, If you pay a monthly stipend to a group of local businessmen, your store doesn't get burned down. So much the better to pay people a fee to keep them from killing you.
Careful, here. He was elected. That means a majority of the voters wanted him.
Step right up folks. Step right up! Shoot a fellow POC, win a thousand dollars. Step right up folks. Step right up!
"If you live in such a situation, it might be practically impossible for you to resist the terrorists in your midst."
I've heard that story too, but it was Vietnam and rats.
Sounds like normalizing the paying of protection money.
Does someone who "reoffends" lose the stipend? What happens to his mentor then?
This is the obvious next step in the "all crime is a result of poverty" mindset
Use a gun get a grand
Correction. Use a gun get twelve grand, assuming no one out for revenge manages to even the score one year hence.
[Warren Wilhelm Jr.] was elected. That means a majority of the voters wanted him.
Washington Irving could see the emergent pattern in 1807. Better late than never, as they say.
Thee wise men of Gotham
Went to sea in a bowl -
If that bowl were stronger,
My song would be longer.
This is the same De Blasio who knew 70% of his city’s black citizens were unvaccinated, but instituted vaccination mandates for bars, restaurants and gyms anyway, right?
Mencken Quotes. Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and hard.
I must admit I like it when they make these kinds of announcements.
I've moved as far away as i could from the craziness. I'm down in the great state of Georgia now. Not missing the tri-state area one bit. Except for my AA friends.
An extra thousand bucks a month can buy some pretty nice, unregistered hardware and enough ammo to beef up your practice hours.
Sounds like the NYC government put a bounty on its own citizens
It seems like it would be more useful to give the cops a thousand dollar raise rather than the criminals.
Urban Mayors and the feds have been funding these programs since the Sixties.
The fact that they just empower a bunch of thugs to shake down their own neighborhoods is no deterrent — to the politicians. In Atlanta, the program money one year went to two groups: the anti-female, anti-Semitic, anti-white Farrakhanites and a clique of aspiring violent rappers, who took over a public building and then killed more than one person with whom they were feuding.
Now we have “ban the box” laws (the box being where you check if you have been convicted of a crime) so landlords and employers don’t get to ask job seekers if they’re felons. Now in many places you aren’t allowed to do background or credit checks either. Think about that the next time the big box store sends someone out to fix your washing machine and you’re alone with them, or you’re interviewing a prospective tenant.
We are de-incentivizing not breaking the law, paying your rent, and telling the truth itself. If someone has truly worked at rehabilitating themselves, he/she certainly deserves a second chance. But his or her co-workers and bosses and customers should be given the information they need to decide if they’ll, say, accept a ride home from work or let a stranger into their house to fix an appliance. Real rehabilitation involves disclosure, patience, and penance, not ACLU interns threatening human resource Lindas.
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