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The gunplay in City Councilor Tito Jackson’s Roxbury neighborhood has kept him up nights searching for an answer to stop the violence. He found one, he says, in Richmond, Calif.
The small San Francisco Bay Area city pays violent young adults a stipend of between $300 and $1,000 per month for up to nine months to abandon a life of crime. It’s working, he says. Crime is down in Richmond.
To those who want to be critical, just look at the numbers. If the state Department of Correction can spend an average of $53,000 a year on every inmate, $9,000 invested on someone who just got out of prison is money well spent. The recidivism rate — which is 50 percent — would be cut down.
You get no taxes from someone while they are locked up in prison. We need to break that cycle. We need to cut down not just on murders, but shootings, too.
Another reason why it’s compelling is it could also reduce the $60 million being spent this year on overtime for police.
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The gunplay in City Councilor Tito Jackson’s Roxbury neighborhood has kept him up nights searching for an answer to stop the violence. He found one, he says, in Richmond, Calif.
The small San Francisco Bay Area city pays violent young adults a stipend of between $300 and $1,000 per month for up to nine months to abandon a life of crime. It’s working, he says. Crime is down in Richmond.
To those who want to be critical, just look at the numbers. If the state Department of Correction can spend an average of $53,000 a year on every inmate, $9,000 invested on someone who just got out of prison is money well spent. The recidivism rate — which is 50 percent — would be cut down.
You get no taxes from someone while they are locked up in prison. We need to break that cycle. We need to cut down not just on murders, but shootings, too.
Another reason why it’s compelling is it could also reduce the $60 million being spent this year on overtime for police.
ARTICLE HERE
i'M SURE ANYONE ASPIRING TO BE A CRIMINAL WOULD AGREE!
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