https://www.newsweek.com/new-san-fra...others-1624676
Apparently it is not enough that we have laws telling people not to shoot each other, now San Francisco wants to pay gang members not to shoot each other.
A new program in San Fransisco 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.So the title of the article is misleading....they are paying people to become "community ambassadors" which seems like a San Francisco way of saying hall monitors. You can even earn an extra 200 for improving your community. The program is based on a similar program in neighboring Richmond, California, which helped reduce gun homicide in the city by 55 percent, according to a 2019 study by the American Journal of Public Health. I do find it hard to believe that a city that has an app to avoid homeless people shitting on the street can curb gun violence by giving gang members $300.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.
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.