Posted on 08/16/2021 9:02:52 AM PDT by karpov
In July 2020, following the George Floyd riots, Mayor Bill de Blasio disbanded the NYPD’s anti-crime unit, which led to a sharp rise in murders and shootings across Gotham. In response, Hizzoner called a news conference in Harlem in which he vowed to address crime’s “root causes.”
No one quite knew what he meant — until now. It turns out the solution is handing out cash to gun thugs.
Through an outfit called Advance Peace, the city will offer a stipend of $1,000 per month (“transformational opportunities”) to “young men involved in lethal firearm offenses,” at the same time pairing them with “neighborhood change agents” — “credible messengers, meaning they bring life experience, conflict mediation and mentorship skills to the target population.”
If giving a grand a month to violent teens — on the proviso that they receive “mentoring” from older ex-cons — sounds like a good use of money, well, you’re in luck. According to Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, investing in the Advance Peace model “isn’t only a moral obligation, it’s a governing imperative.”
Williams — who himself avoids street violence entirely by living within the secure confines of Brooklyn’s federally managed Fort Hamilton Army Garrison — and his associates claim that Advance Peace is “evidence-based” and has a demonstrated track record of success. But a look at the organization’s own reports indicates that the model’s record is, in the best cases, mixed.
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Well Bill de Blasio is Insane so it works
Are you sure this isn’t from the Babylon Bee? This is insane, absolutely insane!
Please try to tell me America isn’t headed towards bankruptcy.
4.5 months left if him.
John, are you writing for the Post now?
But wait… there’s a burger component too!
Insane is as insane does . . . with apologies to Forrest.
Methinks de Blasio is headed for the Ceaușescu treatment.
Maybe his plan is give them money and hope they OD ?
If the violent ghetto rat thugs are killing each other, airdrop more ammo to them.
We’re getting close to hitting the bottom of the slippery slope. It’s going to be a rude awakening for many.
Awesome. Now they can afford to lease a MAC-10 month to month. That should help their self esteem.
Hey you can buy a nice gun and a lot of ammo on the black market for a grand.
No.
The NYCers that voted for that person are insane. De Blasio is just a symptom of NYC’s mental illnesses.
It’s perfectly sane when it is an American hating communist like what’s been installed all over the country. These people have launched a full-on attack against Americans and it launched in 2008 with the election of obama. There is but one goal: to Destroy America
Most will overdose within months.
So he wants to give them about 2 nights worth of drug and alcohol $$ to solve their crime addiction?
Apparently the insane are now running 🏃♀️ The assylums
I will gladly accept $1000/month from De Blasio with the promise I will not travel to NYC to perpetrate war crimes or atrocities.
I can’t write anything that would not be removed. So I write nothing.
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