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Sacramento Plans to pay gang members $1.5M to keep the peace.
FOX News ^ | September 1, 2017 | Benjamin Brown

Posted on 09/04/2017 4:16:20 PM PDT by Tammy8

How bad has gun violence gotten in Sacramento, Calif.? City leaders now plan to pay gang members $1.5 million for a cease-fire. Following a fatal shooting last weekend in a city park, the Sacramento city council unanimously approved a controversial program called Advance Peace in an effort to address a recent spike in violence. The program offers gang members cash stipends for graduating from school and generally staying out of trouble.

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TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; US: California
KEYWORDS: banglist; california; gang; violence; wtf
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To: Tammy8

Our State Capitol. Now the World will know exactly why California is in trouble.


61 posted on 09/04/2017 5:14:04 PM PDT by rockinqsranch (Dems, Libs, Socialists Call 'em what you will, they all have fairies livin' in their trees.)
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To: Tammy8

Yes indeed, $1.5 million today, $2.0 million tomorrow, $3.0 million the next day............sure.


62 posted on 09/04/2017 5:21:12 PM PDT by Dapper 26
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To: a fool in paradise

Sounds like extortion to me ... I thought that used to be against the law.


63 posted on 09/04/2017 5:24:52 PM PDT by Let's Roll ("You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality" -- Ayn Rand)
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To: Artemis Webb

Ha ha, that is what I thought, heck for that kind of money I could pretend to be a gang banger. If I lived there I would hound them to post pictures of those getting paid to not kill people. I am sure they look like poor little misunderstood children.


64 posted on 09/04/2017 5:26:00 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: FreedomPoster

I’m afraid that the US will make real concessions to China — on trade or on freedom of navigation in the South China Sea — in return for help in dealing with North Korea. Paying for removal of a threat.


65 posted on 09/04/2017 5:26:02 PM PDT by omega4412
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To: gaijin

I guess all they would have to do to get a better deal is...shoot someone.


66 posted on 09/04/2017 5:27:05 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: BenLurkin

I cannot imagine the thought process of anyone that thinks this is a great idea. They must at least think they have the support of their voters...


67 posted on 09/04/2017 5:28:15 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: rktman

I wonder why they didn’t do that first? I guess the shootings must have seriously disturbed the citizens and they decided to get all hard core right off the bat.


68 posted on 09/04/2017 5:30:09 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: catpuppy

That has been real effective as well.


69 posted on 09/04/2017 5:30:38 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Paine in the Neck

Very fitting poem. It would seem the enlightened, smarter than everyone liberals missed learning that.


70 posted on 09/04/2017 5:32:39 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Jane Austen

Sounds plausible. Also possible the liberals there are loony enough to believe it will work.

I would love to have been there when that plan was presented, and...it passed by unanimous vote. I am betting the guy that presented it is the one getting the kickback, the rest are likely true believers.


71 posted on 09/04/2017 5:35:51 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Tammy8

Stupid.

You can’t fix it.


72 posted on 09/04/2017 5:36:36 PM PDT by Heart of Georgia (#DrainTheSwamp #HeFights)
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To: adorno
The idea will attract a lot more criminals

I am sure the word is already spreading like wildfire on the streets.

73 posted on 09/04/2017 5:37:44 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Jim 0216

Well even that sounds like a better idea than this nonsense. And we know how that turned out. Liberals don’t like history so never a thought to how this may have turned out in that past.


74 posted on 09/04/2017 5:39:38 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: blueunicorn6

LOL...with this bunch who knows? It might work.


75 posted on 09/04/2017 5:41:44 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: FreedomPoster

Yes indeed. Those oh so smart liberals never read that poem it seems.


76 posted on 09/04/2017 5:42:45 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Billthedrill

Well I wonder how it breaks down, they must be paying at least $15 an hour...right?


77 posted on 09/04/2017 5:43:49 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: I want the USA back

They don’t seem to be concerned about head choppers at the moment. If the head choppers hear about this they may have to pay them as well.


78 posted on 09/04/2017 5:45:43 PM PDT by Tammy8 (Please be a regular supporter of Free Republic !)
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To: Tammy8

That’s like giving in to terrorists on blackmail, which is just what will happen, the ante will keep going up to keep the violence down.


79 posted on 09/04/2017 5:46:40 PM PDT by Captain Peter Blood
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To: Paine in the Neck
Great post. Kipling is boss.

FMCDH(BITS)

80 posted on 09/04/2017 5:46:46 PM PDT by nothingnew (Hemmer and MacCullum are the worst on FNC)
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