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Fifty men commit most gun crimes in Sacramento. Could money, mentoring get them to stop?
Sacramento Bee ^ | August 7, 2017 | By Anita Chabriaachabria

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 ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: California
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To: Bubba_Leroy

Prisons have become little more than recruiting grounds and training centers for criminal gangs.


41 posted on 08/07/2017 1:31:27 PM PDT by Grimmy (equivocation is but the first step along the road to capitulation)
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To: Billthedrill

The only time.


42 posted on 08/07/2017 1:33:24 PM PDT by Rusty0604
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar
I remember reading fifty years ago, some policeman saying he could stop 99% of all crime in their big city if he was allowed to permanently “remove” about 90 people.

They told us "Three Strikes" was going to do that. But our immigration policy always seems to come up with 90 more.

43 posted on 08/07/2017 1:34:51 PM PDT by Mr. Jeeves ([CTRL]-[GALT]-[DELETE])
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To: allendale

“2016-present Darrell Steinberg
2008–2016 Kevin Johnson First African-American mayor to serve in office.”

Steinberg is a Secular Progressive Jew who was termed out of the CA State Senate. Before that he was a judge. Like most Liberals, he’s never really worked a day in his life.
Johnson was a “professional” basket ball player. True training to be a municipal executive.


44 posted on 08/07/2017 1:35:36 PM PDT by vette6387
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Fifty men commit most gun crimes in Sacramento. Could money, mentoring get them to stop?

No.

But armed citizens could.

Since the law seems to be standing around doing nothing about the matter.

45 posted on 08/07/2017 1:37:06 PM PDT by Harmless Teddy Bear (Not a Romantic, not a hero worshiper and stop trying to tug my heartstrings. It tickles! (pink bow))
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Raycis article, I’m triggered, going to go lay down now.


46 posted on 08/07/2017 1:41:29 PM PDT by junta ("Peace is a racket", testimony from crime boss Barrack Hussein Obama.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Fifty men commit most gun crimes in Sacramento. Could money, mentoring get them to stop?

Yes, pay them to stay inside the State Capitol building, the Governor's Mansion, the State Supreme Court building, and the Sacramento Bee's offices.

47 posted on 08/07/2017 1:44:29 PM PDT by Navy Patriot (America returns to the Rule of Law)
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To: stylin19a

I think you’re thinking of those fuzzy, fluffy, lovable, and irresistible grizzly bears.


48 posted on 08/07/2017 1:47:48 PM PDT by 3boysdad (The very elect.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer
Send in Marie Harf to offer them jobs.

-PJ

49 posted on 08/07/2017 1:54:43 PM PDT by Political Junkie Too (The 1st Amendment gives the People the right to a free press, not CNN the right to the 1st question.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

So, CRIME does pay?


50 posted on 08/07/2017 1:56:29 PM PDT by Mark (Celebrities... is there anything they do not know? -Homer Simpson)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

“If he’d just pay me what he’s spending to make me stop robbing him, I’d stop robbing him!” —Butch Cassidy


51 posted on 08/07/2017 1:59:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum ("It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Booth)
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To: Telepathic Intruder
Sacramento sounds like a nice place for someone with an itchy trigger finger to call home.

I could use a little extra money. Who do I have to kill to get a job like that?
52 posted on 08/07/2017 2:02:43 PM PDT by Garth Tater (What's mine is mine.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

Only when they run out of people to shoot.


53 posted on 08/07/2017 2:07:08 PM PDT by SkyDancer (You know they invented wheelbarrows to teach FAA inspectors to walk on their hind legs.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

““Who is investing in these fifty?” he asks. “The sad thing is we are talking about youth that have no interventions, that have had no chance to habilitate, much less rehabilitate.”

I’m thinkin’ we can just shoot ‘em when they pop up.


54 posted on 08/07/2017 2:09:32 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

The answer, Sacramento, is gun buy backs and midnight basketball.


55 posted on 08/07/2017 2:09:55 PM PDT by MrBambaLaMamba (Why is it no one ever discusses the rabid Amerophobia which infects Islam and its adherents?)
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To: allendale

As long as it stays in the’hood, we don’t care.


56 posted on 08/07/2017 2:11:20 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

There is no way in hell that we should be rewarding punks who shoot other people.

They should be sent to prison or shot between the eyes so the rest of society does not become their victims.

Rewarding gun violence is so far past total stupidity that it should shock even the democrats.

And people wonder why we have decided to leave the Peoples Republik of Kalifornia. This kind of stupidity is why.

If you know who is doing the gun violence in a city they lock the punks up so they can’t shoot anyone else.

Only in Cali would you reward punks with guns.


57 posted on 08/07/2017 2:31:18 PM PDT by oldenuff35
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To: vette6387; All

I will bet money that the same metrics are true for every city in the country.


Pretty much correct. David Kennedy has studied the issue extensively and is the foremost authority on it.

He advocates a mixed approach with the “stick” of long term imprisonment for those who do not get with the program. It is the same thing done with Project Exile and similar programs. They are effective to the extent they get the violent criminals off the street or in fear of being arrested shortly.

http://www.courtinnovation.org/research/david-kennedy-innovating-new-approaches-justice-part-ii


58 posted on 08/07/2017 2:55:18 PM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

It’s called introducing deadly weapons into a primitive society:

“Vengeance Is Ours: What can tribal societies tell us about our need to get even?” by Jared Diamond
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2008/04/21/vengeance-is-ours

The only difference is that while these New Guineans are surrounded and isolated by tropical forests, our domestic savages are surrounded and isolated by liberals.


59 posted on 08/07/2017 3:27:58 PM PDT by nicollo (I said no!)
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To: Oldeconomybuyer

No, but one 50 round box of good hollowpoints would. Less than 40 bucks.


60 posted on 08/07/2017 3:41:15 PM PDT by DesertRhino (Dog is man's best friend, and moslems hate dogs. Add that up.)
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