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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: DesertRhino

Post of the Day!


61 posted on 08/07/2017 3:43:00 PM PDT by Godebert (CRUZ: Born in a foreign land to a foreign father.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Perspective...

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Fifty (50) identified perps?

A single box

-- properly applied -- would fix the problem.

62 posted on 08/07/2017 4:00:26 PM PDT by TXnMA ("Allah": Satan's alias. "Islam": Allah's assassins; "Moderate Muslims": Islam's useful idiots.)
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To: SIRTRIS

Another study, vigils, “Don’t Nobody Shoot Nobody” weekends, and all the rest of it, but whatever you do, don’t speak the truth. The problem isn’t guns. The problem is young black males with guns and young Hispanic males with guns. Shhh, keep pretending it’s the gun.


63 posted on 08/07/2017 4:26:42 PM PDT by Pining_4_TX (For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind. ~ Hosea 8:7)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

If you know who is killing all those folks then go out there, find them, and shoot them.


64 posted on 08/07/2017 5:33:14 PM PDT by arthurus
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To: ConservativeMind

GMTA


65 posted on 08/08/2017 6:20:37 AM PDT by Texas Eagle (If it wasn't for double-standards, Liberals would have no standards at all -- Texas Eagle)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

50 member Midnight Basketball League. Problem solved.


66 posted on 08/08/2017 6:23:51 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: TXnMA
50 preps

50 rounds in a box of ammo.

Coincidence??

67 posted on 08/08/2017 6:35:23 AM PDT by N. Theknow (Kennedys-Can't drive, can't ski, can't fly, can't skipper a boat-But they know what's best for you.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Could money, mentoring get them to stop?

Listen carefully...NO!

68 posted on 08/08/2017 8:45:36 AM PDT by JimRed ( TERM LIMITS, NOW!“At 9 a.m. this morning a shipbo Building the Wall! TRUTH is the new HATE SPEECH)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Hang them by the neck until they are dead, and leave the corpses twisting slowly in the wind.

Pour encourager les autres ...

69 posted on 08/08/2017 8:51:46 AM PDT by NorthMountain (The Democrats ... have lost their grip on reality -DJT)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Hooking them up to old Sparky will also get them to stop


70 posted on 08/08/2017 8:55:28 AM PDT by Godzilla ( I just love the smell of COVFEFE in the morning . . . . .)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Gun violence typically breeds gun violence, because it’s cyclical and retaliatory,

I stopped reading at that point.

I would submit to you, that almost every American who shot and/or killed a bad guy in self-defense, does not suddenly become "cyclical and retaliatory." My understanding is that they go through a range of emotions that does not generally include going Full Metal Jacket on the neighborhood.

71 posted on 08/08/2017 7:55:58 PM PDT by DoodleBob
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