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Paying Criminals Not to Commit Crimes
www.weirduniuverse.net ^ | 2-7-2016 | Unknown

Posted on 02/22/2016 8:54:17 PM PST by morphing libertarian

Perspective: On the heels of a similar program in Richmond, Calif., Washington, D.C.’s D.C. Council authorized funding in January to pay stipends to notorious criminals if they stop committing crimes. Police would identify up to 50 residents likely to violently offend again in 2016 and offer them periodic cash payments plus special training and educational benefits--as long as they stay out of trouble. Officials in Richmond (once overwhelmed by gun deaths) say their program, commenced ten years ago, has produced a 76 percent drop in gun-related crime. [Washington Post, 2-7-2016]


TOPICS: Local News; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: briberybegood; crime
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To: morphing libertarian

Okay, instead of making golfers play it where it lies, how about we all get a free drop and one stroke’s credit on any hole that your ball ends up in a hazard or out of bounds?


21 posted on 02/23/2016 1:50:55 AM PST by equaviator (There's nothing like the universe to bring you down to earth.)
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To: morphing libertarian

Watch them unionize, and get the right to strike.


22 posted on 02/23/2016 1:58:47 AM PST by RFEngineer
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To: goldstategop

“If people want to break the rules, there are consequences.”

In this case breaking the rules results in a paycheck. You will get more criminals this way.


23 posted on 02/23/2016 2:05:49 AM PST by RFEngineer
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To: <1/1,000,000th%

Hence the old adage “some people just need killing.”


24 posted on 02/23/2016 3:30:48 AM PST by FreedomPoster (Islam delenda est)
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To: morphing libertarian

How do you pronounce “Danegeld” with a DC accent?


25 posted on 02/23/2016 3:48:07 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: morphing libertarian

Give them a penny a month and refrain from shooting them in the back of the head - that should be payment enough....


26 posted on 02/23/2016 4:56:09 AM PST by trebb (Where in the the hell has my country gone?)
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To: Lurker
Next, they will offer the drug cartels zillions of dollars to not smuggle drugs into the U. S.
27 posted on 02/23/2016 6:51:23 AM PST by Know et al (Keep on Freepin'!!!)
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To: RFEngineer

There was a move to unionize prisoners, I think in the 80s. Too many real union officials in risen screwed up the initiative.


28 posted on 02/23/2016 7:49:22 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: Jimmy Valentine

JV I missed that one


29 posted on 02/23/2016 7:50:49 AM PST by morphing libertarian
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To: morphing libertarian

“Danegeld” was monies paid by Medieval societies to Vikings and other marauders to leave them alone and not pillage.


30 posted on 02/23/2016 11:56:06 AM PST by Jimmy Valentine (DemocRATS - when they speak, they lie; when they are silent, they are stealing the American Dream)
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To: American in Israel

That’s what I was thinking.


31 posted on 02/23/2016 12:22:52 PM PST by <1/1,000,000th%
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To: Jimmy Valentine

Thanx and Rome and Constantinople to barbarians for a couple hundred years

If I recall correctly the viks showed up outside Istanbul and the head guy took gold out to them to go away


32 posted on 02/23/2016 1:04:15 PM PST by morphing libertarian
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