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Fifty men commit most gun crimes in Sacramento. Could money, mentoring get them to stop?
Sacramento Bee ^ | August 7, 2017 | By Anita Chabriaachabria

Posted on 08/07/2017 1:08:13 PM PDT by Oldeconomybuyer

When someone is shot in Sacramento, it’s a good bet that one of about 50 mostly black or Latino young men pulled the trigger.

Police know it. Community members know it.

DeVone Boggan knows it, too. In Richmond, where he runs an anti-gun violence program called Advance Peace, he has befriended 84 men considered most likely to kill with a gun there.

The truth about gun crimes, said Boggan, is that a small number of known shooters cause an outsize amount of trauma. They can be hard to catch, he said, and few have tried to reach them with anything but enforcement.

Every shooter in Boggan’s program in Richmond has been shot or had a family member shot. “Gun violence typically breeds gun violence, because it’s cyclical and retaliatory,” he said.

He said the violence often has less to do with organized gangs than it does personal rivalries and neighborhood cliques. “We’ve got beefs around respect issues, historical beefs,” Boggan said.

Boggan said shooters are kids who grew up in “atmospheric trauma” and “chaos” every day, and often go minute-to-minute fearing for their safety and the safety of loved ones.

(Excerpt) Read more at sacbee.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If money and mentoring fail, you could always declare a “Don’t Nobody Shoot Anybody” weekend. It’s worked every time it’s been tried except for one time.


21 posted on 08/07/2017 1:19:40 PM PDT by Billthedrill
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If Giuliani or a serious person like him were the mayor of Sacramento, the problem would have been solved quickly. However when Democrats are in charge and the violence is almost exclusively minority on minority, they don’t do much to stop it. Chicago is the prototypical example.


22 posted on 08/07/2017 1:20:07 PM PDT by allendale (.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
There is a program for it already, it's called Prison.

23 posted on 08/07/2017 1:20:20 PM PDT by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Money and mentoring just might help them but a bullet in the back of the head would absolutely help both of them immensely.
24 posted on 08/07/2017 1:20:22 PM PDT by Gay State Conservative (ObamaCare Works For Those Who Don't.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Just ask them nicely...you’d be surprised how well kindness works. You want proof? Well, there’s Baltimore this past weekend with their “Aint nobody gunna shoot nobody” success.


25 posted on 08/07/2017 1:21:26 PM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

What about shooting them?


26 posted on 08/07/2017 1:23:11 PM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Remove these 50 from the streets, see if crime drops.


27 posted on 08/07/2017 1:23:18 PM PDT by Reno89519 (Drain the Swamp is not party specific. Lyn' Ted is still a liar, Good riddance to him.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

50 bullets cost about $10.


28 posted on 08/07/2017 1:23:30 PM PDT by SunTzuWu
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If the claim of fifty men is correct, then publish pictures of them and place a bounty on them.

Bounties worked before and can work again.


29 posted on 08/07/2017 1:23:38 PM PDT by GladesGuru (Islam Delenda Est. Because of what Islam is - and because of what Muslims do.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Nacht und Nebel


30 posted on 08/07/2017 1:25:06 PM PDT by RedStateRocker (Nuke Mecca, deport all illegal aliens, abolish the IRS, DEA and ATF.)
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To: Stosh

Catch them, kill them, cook them and eat them.

Just as an example to anybody else who would attempt such a way of life.

It is not the size of the jail, it is the size of the legal corps who are dedicated to keeping as many miscreants out of jail as they can argue before sometimes very compliant and/or lenient judges.

Prosecution fails, not the law enforcement aspect.


31 posted on 08/07/2017 1:26:01 PM PDT by alloysteel (Guilty until proven innocent, while denying defense, justice, mercy or any appeal. No pardon, ever.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

I remember reading fifty years ago, some policeman saying he could stop 99% of all crime in their big city if he was allowed to permanently “remove” about 90 people.


32 posted on 08/07/2017 1:26:10 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: Texas Eagle

That is exactly what I was thinking.


33 posted on 08/07/2017 1:28:37 PM PDT by ConservativeMind (Trump: Befuddling Democrats, Republicans, and the Media for the benefit of the US and all mankind.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hey I got an idea. Maybe let them play basketball at midnight?


34 posted on 08/07/2017 1:28:58 PM PDT by Bullish (Whatever it takes to MAGA)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

How many police officers are employed by the taxpayers of Sacramento? Surely they should be able to find something on 50 criminals so they can lock them up & get them off the streets....unless they don’t want to.


35 posted on 08/07/2017 1:29:34 PM PDT by txrefugee (.)
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To: Stosh

250 feet by 8 feet of good easily digable earth could solve the same problem.


36 posted on 08/07/2017 1:29:52 PM PDT by Strac6 ("Mrs. Strac, Pilatus, and Sig Sauer: All the fun things in my life are Swiss!")
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Sure, money can get them to stop.

$1 for a Hornady HRT 9mm HP.


37 posted on 08/07/2017 1:30:39 PM PDT by ctdonath2 (It's not "white privilege", it's "Puritan work ethic". Behavior begets consequences.)
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To: Salvavida

I don’t understand the “he disrespected me” mentality. I just don’t.


38 posted on 08/07/2017 1:30:46 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

But a .30 cap between thru eyes would


39 posted on 08/07/2017 1:30:49 PM PDT by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer; ExTexasRedhead

I will bet money that the same metrics are true for every city in the country. But the Liberals say:”The solution to gun crime is to take all of them away from people who never cause a problem and only have them for self-protection!” Maybe it’s time for “vigilante justice?” I don’t think it would be a big problem to get the”cop’s lists” and “take appropriate measures!” When the “eliminations” started, you would soon see massive “come to Jesus meetings” in the appropriate “communities!” When the “ferral hunters” become the “hunted,” the change would be dramatic.


40 posted on 08/07/2017 1:31:20 PM PDT by vette6387
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