Posted on 04/07/2016 10:33:19 AM PDT by Teotwawki
One of most dangerous areas in America has resorted to paying teenagers up to $1,300 a month as officials desperately try and stop gun crime.
Gang members in Richmond, California, can also go on all expenses paid trips to New York and Washington if they are willing to travel with a rival.
The programme, which is predominantly funded by taxpayers, was introduced in the city earlier this year.
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Lived for awhile in Newport Beach, but I honestly couldn't remove myself from there fast enough. So other than a few cities down the coast form Newport Beach, like Laguna Beach, I never really got into knowing much about California. Once you become disillusioned your interest to learn more becomes non existent.
Wouldn’t it be cheaper to offer a $1300 bounty?.......................
Hmmm. Gang members get $1300 a month.
What do law-abiding, non-violent people get?
The bill, of course.
1. Shoot rival anyhow using stolen gun.
2. Leave rival’s body in the street. Nobody gonna snitch nohow.
3. Steal rival’s identity, collect his check too
Easy peasy.
They should be paying them to shoot each other.
It would be far less expensive to the taxpayers if the gangs simply went ahead and wiped each other out. So long as innocents are not caught in the crossfire, what’s the downside?
I saw this story on Nightline earlier this week.
My first thought: Gee, aren’t they just going to buy drugs with that money.
But I’m probably wrong.
They’re going to buy guns with that money.
The gist of the story, btw, was an attempt at going national with this.
“Lived there for a couple of years. It is a sewer”
Yes, it is, and it’s been that way since WWII. Kaiser built ships there and Ford had an assembly plant that built military vehicles (both are long-gone), but the AA’s that moved there from the South to work in the defense facilities, didn’t go home when the war ended, they just stayed, and since there was no follow-on employment, they created their own little “living on welfare community” in Richmond. I can remember as a young man, the county getting into trouble for having “unannounced visits” to “families on welfare.” The AA’s were gaming the system by moving their children around to inflate their welfare payments. The Blacks insisted that it “wasn’t fair” to show up unannounced, because it “questioned their honesty and insulted their dignity!” And because the county occasionally caught a “sperm donor” who haddn’t had the “opportunity” to be somewhere else when the case worker showed up. In the end, the AA’s won, and the county social services people had to “make appointments” to visit. More recently, thanks to Obamacare, the local hospital in Richmond has had to close, so now the residents have to go to the county hospital in Martinez, making it a zoo.
I promise to not blow up the world, if you give me a million dollars?
“Wouldn’t it be cheaper to offer a $1300 bounty?.......................”
NO, free ammo would be the best solution. Then warn the decent people not to visit Richmond.
“Sir, killing a gang member’s only an $18 fine. Just mail it in.” - Naked Gun.
Bring in some mercenaries and pay them a grand a head.
How about we make sterilization a requirement for continuing to receive welfare after one kid?
For libtards its society's fault for crime, so society needs to be punished and pay for what it did to the poor helpless teenagers who are actually good by nature and can be perfected by creating the right environment that allows them to get in touch with their real "good" selves.
Hmm, $1,300 a month ain’t bad for doing nothing. How hard is it to get into one of these gangs?
If I just have to get v’d in, that might be worth it. I’m not shooting someone’s grandma though!
“Then a picture of the Richmond marina.”
It’s a veritable hot bed of gang violence, I tell ya. Why just last year, a gang of hoodlums crashed the regatta wearing t-shirts! Can you believe that? And they had on gym shoes!!!! The heathens...
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