Tyree Moorehead spent 18 years in prison for second degree murder which he committed when he was 15
Posted on 02/19/2021 11:07:25 AM PST by SJackson
Tyree Moorehead spent 18 years in prison for second degree murder which he committed when he was 15
A Baltimore convict and community activist has come up with what he says is solution to the city's soaring murder rate - paying killers not to shoot people.
Tyree Moorehead spent 18 years in prison for second degree murder which he committed when he was 15.
He was released from prison in 2012 and has since devoted his time to trying to work with criminals in Baltimore to reduce crime rates.
He told FOX 45 this week that he believes the way to lower the city's soaring shooting numbers is to pay criminals not to kill people.
'I can relate to the shooters, guess what they want? They want money.
'I've talked to these people, I've seen the shooters, it’s a small city, I know who the hustlers are,' he said.
He didn't give any more details as to how such a system would work.
Baltimore had the second highest murder rate in the US in 2018 and 2019 after St Louis.
New Orleans and Baton Rouge in Louisiana were second and fourth.
Chicago's gun violence problem is prolific but its number of murders there per capita has never put it in top five for deadliest cities in the US.
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In 2016, officials in Richmond, California, tested a program where they paid young offenders for staying out of trouble.
As part of that program, convicts or troubled youths could earn up to $1,000 if they completed a series of goals over a certain amount of time.
Community 'peacekeepers' - ex-cons - were used to enforce it and it lowered the city's murder rate to the lowest it had been for 30 years.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
If they kill someone, do they have to give the money back.
Wow. Just wow.
Why the entire black existence predicated upon getting free stuff gifted from others?
That sounds just a little bit like extortion. Instead of arresting someone who has shot down a child on the street, we should give him money so he won’t do it again? Or should we divine the killers before they kill and give them money then as a contract to not do the killing? The logic here escapes me.
I’ve never killt anybody either. How much can I expect??
Brilliant!
Clearly a social genius solution.
I know you should but I did not even bother to read the article fully, I think I didnt miss much.
Maybe it would make more sense to have the family and friends of the victim bid on who gets to shoot the killer in the head after he/she is found guilty.
Make a hellova lot more sense than this.
Extortion. The bedrock of all successful public policy.
So, a criminal wants protection money.
Arrest him.
Placating bad guys never, ever works. History is full of examples why this is a horrible idea. Of course, these Leftist clowns pay no attention to history.
What is there to read? He is not the first nor will he be the last to propose this.
My real fear at this point is that the people of Baltimore will find him so brilliant they will send him to congress.
This makes as much sense as paying for slavery reparations more than 150 years after the fact.
Extortion. The bedrock of all successful public policy.
Yep, but at least he is honest and up front about it.
Nice population you got there.
Be a shame if it got cut down.
Counter proposal: You dont kill anyone. We dont execute you.
They’ll just use the money to buy more illegal drugs and weapons
This is an old idea.
Mentally ill individuals (liberals) have been debating this for years.
From 5 years ago....
https://www.brookings.edu/opinions/should-we-pay-people-not-to-commit-crime/
How about an Assassin’s Guild - where murderers can be allowed to kill as long as they remain within quotas? After all, it worked well for Ankh Morpork on disc world.
There is no bottom to the idiocy of leftists or their supporters. Sooner or later, it’s going to either war or submission.
Give war a chance.
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