D.C. wants to pay criminals not to commit more crime

• QuakerOats

  From the Washington Examiner:
  
  The District of Columbia has moved forward on a plan to reward $4.9 million over four years to released criminals who do not become repeat offenders.
  
  The D.C. City Council unanimously approved a bill Tuesday that includes a proposal to pay residents an annual stipend if they are not rearrested following release from jail or prison.
  
  City officials would pick 200 people per year who are at the greatest risk for committing or becoming victims of violent crime and assign them to behavioral therapy and other programs. Once they meet the requirement and avoid trouble, they become eligible for a payout from the city.
  
  The program is based off one in Richmond, Calif., where its developers say it has led to steep reductions in regional crime. Richmond's program pays participants up to $9,000 per year, but District officials did not say how much selected Washington residents could be looking at receiving.
  
  
  
  
  I am fucking speechless.
• 4cards

  

  ...So what their saying is why pay cops to enforce the laws when we can now pay criminals not to commit crimes?
  
  Dammm, our country is fucked up!
• QuakerOats

  Commit some armed robbery, collect $9,000 per year. Brilliant.
  
  I think they should also include an inflation adjuster so the $9k can increase annually; it would only be right.
• sleeper

  

  DC is and absolutely always will be a huge joke.
• ptown_trojans_1

  

  In theory this sounds like it would work. There is an incentive for former criminals to not commit crimes. Kinda like an allowance. You get an allowance, but if you are bad, it gets taken away.
  Problem, there is no way this works in practice. It will quickly get out of hand and a mess.
  
  Solid idea, but the practice of this will be a disaster.
• Heretic

  

  If someone wants to start paying me to not commit crimes, I'll gladly take that money!
• friendfromlowry

  How about repeat offenders just go to jail longer instead.
• QuakerOats

  Heretic;1779760 wrote:If someone wants to start paying me to not commit crimes, I'll gladly take that money!

  
  I hear ya.
  
  But in the liberal mind, if you don't commit crimes you should be 'rewarded' by having your taxes increased, or at least diverted, so that moronic politicians can use it to give to criminals (for playing nice).
  
  
  
  It is stunning what some radicals would do with other people's money.
• GOONx19

  

  O/U: $2 million of the 4.9 will be spent on prostitutes and blow.
• sleeper

  

  It wouldn't surprise me at all if DC starts paying people to vote too.
• QuakerOats

  sleeper;1779790 wrote:It wouldn't surprise me at all if DC starts paying people to vote too.

  
  That has been occurring with libs for decades ---- 'vote for me and I will give you housing, food stamps, medicaid, and an obamaphone, for generations'.
• Dr Winston O'Boogie

  

  This is a horrible proposal.
• Belly35

  

  friendfromlowry;1779764 wrote:How about repeat offenders just go to jail longer instead.

  Simple solution: Castration
  limits the number of dead beat dads and decrease the number women with mulitple children and fear of a nutles mofo
• Belly35

  

  GOONx19;1779780 wrote:O/U: $2 million of the 4.9 will be spent on prostitutes and blow.

  How much will Hillary get paid ?
• Belly35

  

  How about paying law biding citizen to shoot criminals:
  first time criminal committing a crime $200.00 wounded kill $500.00
  Second time felon committing a crime $750.00 wounded Kill $1000.00
  Third time felon committing a crime ...... $2000.00 dead or alive (the pickin should get smaller)
• gut

  Belly35;1779939 wrote:How about paying law biding citizen to shoot criminals:
  first time criminal committing a crime $200.00 wounded kill $500.00
  Second time felon committing a crime $750.00 wounded Kill $1000.00
  Third time felon committing a crime ...... $2000.00 dead or alive (the pickin should get smaller)

  Why not just round-up prisoners and have a turkey shoot?
• ernest_t_bass

  

  ptown_trojans_1;1779759 wrote:In theory this sounds like it would work. There is an incentive for former criminals to not commit crimes. Kinda like an allowance. You get an allowance, but if you are bad, it gets taken away.
  Problem, there is no way this works in practice. It will quickly get out of hand and a mess.
  
  Solid idea, but the practice of this will be a disaster.

  
  WTF? No, it's not a "solid idea."
• like_that

  

  ernest_t_bass;1779995 wrote:WTF? No, it's not a "solid idea."

  Ptown, the apologist.
• Belly35

  

  gut;1779990 wrote:Why not just round-up prisoners and have a turkey shoot?

  if they are prisoners what to round up?
  
  The criminals has to do a crime to receive the one time reward gift of .75 cent it would be wrong to just shoot for no reason.
• ernest_t_bass

  

  Things I haven't done for which I deserve compensation:
  
  - I've never smoked crack
  - I've never committed any sex crimes (I should get compensation for each I haven't committed)
  - I've never done heroine
  - I've never committed breaking and entering
  - I've never killed a guy... yet!
  
  Or do I have to commit those crimes first, then promise to not do it again, in order to get paid?
• wkfan

  ernest_t_bass;1779998 wrote:Or do I have to commit those crimes first, then promise to not do it again, in order to get paid?

  This....in the screwed up Washington world....this is how we do it.
• Heretic

  

  ernest_t_bass;1779998 wrote:Things I haven't done for which I deserve compensation:
  
  - I've never smoked crack
  - I've never committed any sex crimes (I should get compensation for each I haven't committed)
  - I've never done heroine
  - I've never committed breaking and entering
  - I've never killed a guy... yet!
  
  Or do I have to commit those crimes first, then promise to not do it again, in order to get paid?

  Burdon of proof is on you.
• vball10set

  ernest_t_bass;1779998 wrote:Things I haven't done for which I deserve compensation:
  
  - I've never smoked crack
  - I've never committed any sex crimes (I should get compensation for each I haven't committed)
  - I've never done heroin
  - I've never committed breaking and entering
  - I've never killed a guy... yet!

  ...said Tiernan never
• friendfromlowry

  Belly35;1779931 wrote:Simple solution: Castration
  limits the number of dead beat dads and decrease the number women with mulitple children and fear of a nutles mofo

  Has a hard on for rights as they relate to guns, but ignores cruel and unusual punishment. Got it.
• FatHobbit

  

  I wonder how many people they will pay for not committing more crime and then later find out they actually were still criminals. If you're charged with a crime will they automatically stop paying you or will they wait until you've been found guilty? And once you're back in jail how do they squeeze that money back out of you?