Steve Lopez of the Los Angeles Times wrote a May 26, 2018 article entitled: "Stockton's young mayor has bold turnaround plan: Basic income and stipends for potential shooters" (link
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Stockton is about to award stipends of up to $1,000 a month to residents deemed most likely to shoot somebody. This program is called Advance Peace, and it's modeled after a crime reduction program in the Bay Area city of Richmond.
The idea is that a small number of people are responsible for a large percentage of violence, and offering them an alternative path — with counseling and case management over an 18-month period, along with a stipend if they stay the course — can be a good investment all around."
The article covers not just providing this stipend to the identified shooters, but to then expand it as a stipend to other Stockton residents.
So, they have identified criminals (how else would they know these people are responsible for violence?) and intend to, in effect, pay them non-requested extortion money to not commit a violent crime? Forget the counseling and case management, how will they know that the offender did not commit a violent crime anyway? Are they going to keep paying until the person is arrested? And what do they actually expect to happen after 18 months, that these criminals will now be honest tax paying members of society? Really?
What a sad testament to society that this is actually being considered. Our founding fathers must be spinning in their graves.