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 ...
Prisons have become little more than recruiting grounds and training centers for criminal gangs.
The only time.
They told us "Three Strikes" was going to do that. But our immigration policy always seems to come up with 90 more.
“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.
No.
But armed citizens could.
Since the law seems to be standing around doing nothing about the matter.
Raycis article, I’m triggered, going to go lay down now.
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.
I think you’re thinking of those fuzzy, fluffy, lovable, and irresistible grizzly bears.
-PJ
So, CRIME does pay?
“If he’d just pay me what he’s spending to make me stop robbing him, I’d stop robbing him!” —Butch Cassidy
Only when they run out of people to shoot.
““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.
The answer, Sacramento, is gun buy backs and midnight basketball.
As long as it stays in the’hood, we don’t care.
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.
I will bet money that the same metrics are true for every city in the country.
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
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.
No, but one 50 round box of good hollowpoints would. Less than 40 bucks.
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