California Paying Criminals To Prevent Crime

This could only happen in an age of free resources:

A story recently appeared in The Washington Post about a city just north of San Francisco – Richmond, California – that is paying violent criminals to stop committing crimes. One such criminal is 21-year-old Lonnie Holmes who has been involved in drive-by shootings and other gun crimes… the city approached him with an offer to pay him “as much as $1,000 a month not to commit another gun crime.”

Not only does Richmond pay its criminals, it is also paying its ex-convicts to be mentors to other violent offenders as a way to encourage them not to murder… The mentors have funded trips to South Africa, London and Mexico City for rival gang members in the hope that shared experiences and time away from the city streets would ease tensions and forge new connections…

And when the elaborate efforts at engagement fail, the mentors still pay those who pledge to improve, even when, like Holmes, they are caught with a gun, or worse — suspected of murder… oftentimes they withhold information from the police. “At least twice,” the report explains, “that may have allowed suspected killers in the stipend program to evade responsibility for homicides.”

Now, other cities want to model Richmond’s “unconventional” methods, from Miami, to Toledo, to Baltimore. First up, however, is Washington D.C. ,hoping to reduce its abysmal homicide rate and match the “success” of Richmond.

So, how does Holmes spend his money-for-not-being-a-criminal? He is leasing a 2015 Nissan Versa for $500 a month and drives around smoking marijuana. To help pay for his new expenses, Holmes is applying to become an Uber driver.

But what is really happening inside this program? Mentioned in the report is the fact that four of the “fellows” in the program have died since 2010, two of them killed by other fellows. “The suspected killers have not been charged and remain in the program,” The Post notes.

This is mindbogglingly stupid. But it is also a good example of the instinctual pre-emptive appeasement leftists perform in the face of violent savages. Wherever you see such stupidity performed by otherwise intelligent people, you are looking at instinct.

These are instincts. Importing Muslims and offering them generous welfare to come, even as they rape, rob, and murder their way across Europe is the same thing. Seeking out illegal South American immigrants, even from criminal gangs, and supporting their cause is the same thing. Lax sentencing, opposition to the death penalty, hogtying police, limiting the military in wars overseas with restrictive rules of engagement, disarming innocent citizens so they can’t defend themselves, and so on. They are all r-selected instincts designed to destroy the K-selected.

Leftists are literally so programmed instinctually to preemptively appease out-groups, that they will perform stupidity like this, and assume it is perfectly logical.

More and more I am fascinated at the completely different world leftists live in.

Tell others about r/K Theory, because it is the best way to short circuit their programming