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 ...
It’s amazing what a public hanging does when it comes to respect and turf battles.
“Magnum Force”.
Doesn’t seem like it would take a very big jail to hold 50 people.
Didn’t a lion whisperer get attacked by a lion ?
Let’s get another study going..
Could money, mentoring get them to stop?
Perhaps they should consider prosecution and long term imprisonment instead? Just a thought.
Take them into protective custody.
Only for a day or two at most.
Or we could just hang them publicly in the Sacramento town square.
“Nothing so concentrates the mind as a public execution”
Andrew Jackson.
What a great way to incentivize 500 more career criminals. Soon you’ll be paying 550 criminals. And the next wave will be 5,550. Of all the stupid ideas.
These fifty guys are shooting up one of america’s leading cities while californication has tens of thousands of far less violent people locked up.
Uhhhhh, no.
But 50 bullets could.
“Nothing so concentrates the mind as a public execution”
Andrew Jackson.
How about a nice rousing chorus of kumbayah? And a hug. Don’t forget the hug.
50 known thugs and they can’t catch them?
Those kids came of age in the 1950s and never became "shooters". What makes the Sacramento kids so "special" and different?
Do I need to read the entire article to learn there are no other possible alternatives?
“50 known thugs and they can’t catch them?”
Snitches get stitches.
Sacramento sounds like a nice place for someone with an itchy trigger finger to call home.
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