San Francisco has decided to begin a pilot program where they pay $300 to residents in poor communities to not shoot each other.
Why do these Leftist elites assume throwing money at a problem is always the best solution? All you have to do is look at California’s homelessness mess to see the failure in that proposition. Yet, they keep doing it.
And what a perspective San Francisco’s Black Mayor London Breed has of her own people: Black and brown people are incapable of stemming their penchant toward crime because they’re so poor, so let’s give them a monthly incentive to stop.
Straight up racism wrapped in supposed good intentions.
We all know what the road to hell is paved with….
This initiative is the pilot program that will now be used in place of actual policing. According to KQED, this is what Breed did with the funds formerly allotted to the police budget:
San Francisco Mayor London Breed on Thursday announced a plan for how the city will spend $120 million over the next two years, pulled from law enforcement budgets, to reinvest in the city’s long-underserved Black communities.
“The Dream Keeper Initiative,” as it’s dubbed, increases investments in workforce development, health campaigns, youth and cultural programs and housing support. The allocations reflect spending priorities conveyed by Black residents during a series of community meetings and public surveys led last year by the city’s Human Rights Commission, Breed said.
“It was important that we took the conversation to the community and we got feedback on what was most important,” Breed said on KQED’s Forum Thursday.
What was “most important” is money for curbing their violent tendencies? Yeah, right.
“I want to change the outcome of African Americans in the city who are disproportionately impacted in the criminal justice system, disproportionately impacted by homelessness and a number of other disparities, even in our public school system. And I wanted to make sure that these investments were going to make a difference.”
But London, your boy Chesa [Boudin] (the SF D.A.) doesn’t prosecute anybody anymore. So, how are Blacks now disproportionately impacted? And while we’re at it, instead of using taxpayer dollars to pay for this initiative, why not just take Chesa’s salary since he is not doing his job?
Of the $60 million slated to be spent this fiscal year, through September, nearly $14 million will go toward workforce training and development programs, including small business support and efforts to increase Black employment in city agencies. Another roughly $15 million will be used to support community health and wellness initiatives, and about $10 million will go toward housing security, including a push to increase Black homeownership.
So, does the first program out the gate have anything to do with Black employment or workforce training? Did we connect Robert Half and Apple One with some grants to do this? How about Health and Wellness? Are Whole Foods and Sprouts invading the community? What is this ‘housing security’? Will the criminals with guns now double as security guards?
Nope, they’re only paying people $300 to not to shoot each other.
From Newsweek:
A new program in San Fransisco [sic] will pay people at high risk of shooting someone not to pull the trigger to help alleviate rising gun violence in the city.
The Dream Keeper Fellowship is set to launch in October and pay 10 individuals $300 each month to not be involved in shootings, Sheryl Davis, executive director of the Human Rights Commission, told Newsweek in an interview Tuesday.
Davis explained that the program is not “transactional,” but will rather focus on making investments in communities most impacted by violence.
“It’s not necessarily as cut and dry as folks may think. It’s not as transactional as, ‘Here’s a few dollars so that you don’t do something bad,’ but it really is about how you help us improve public safety in the neighborhood,” she said.
How is this not transactional? You are paying for someone to modify their behavior. However, transactions usually work when the price agreed upon for the service or product given is beneficial to both parties. How do we know $300 now is worth the benefit of not capping someone later? Or how do we know these individuals are not merely moving their penchant for criminal behavior into other arenas?
Have any actual studies been done on this?
Participants will be paired with life coaches from the city’s Street Violence Intervention Program and will be considered “community ambassadors” who work to prevent violence. They will work on their professional, personal, and community development and will be thought of as “partners” in engaging community members and decreasing violence.
“As you become better, your community benefits from that,” she said.
Life coaches? This is sounding more and more like a Saturday Night Livesketch. The San Francisco elite apparently have more money than common sense. Wait, our governor is one of them… Never mind!
The program aims to get to the “root causes” of violence, “which in so many ways are economic,” according to Davis.
“We need to be getting to the root causes of why some neighborhoods are safer than others,” Davis said.
Hmm.. I’ll give you some hints. In some neighborhoods, people actually work hard to be able to live there and maintain their property; so they already have an investment and they are more motivated to protect that investment, including maintaining morally acceptable behavior — so that they, and others, are not put at unnecessary risk. These people teach their children to learn to invest (this starts with life maintenance and education), and to respect their investments, as well as the investments of others. You know, the Golden Rule: “Do unto others as you would have them do unto you.” Mutual respect helps to mitigate adverse consequences.