San Fran Citizens Are Getting Rewarded Every Month For NOT KILLING Each Other

For the purpose of reducing violent crime, the city of San Francisco in California has announced the implementation of a scheme that will pay citizens $300 per month if they do not shoot someone.

According to a Fox News report, the organization, dubbed Dream Keeper Fellowship, “will pay ten individuals who are at high risk of being on either end of a shooting $300 each month in exchange for their commitment to not being involved in such crimes.” This implies that persons who are at high danger of being shot are also eligible for the program, however, it is unclear how this is determined. The initiative will officially begin in October.

Sheryl Davis, executive director of the Human Rights Commission, told Newsweek that the program is not “transactional,” as it may seem.

“It’s not necessarily as cut and dry as folks may think. It’s not as transactional as, ‘Here’s a few dollars so that you don’t do something bad,’ but it really is about how you help us improve public safety in the neighborhood,” she told the outlet.

From Newsweek:

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.

Davis said the program will attempt to find the “root causes” of violence, which she said in “so many ways are economic.”

“In many cases, sadly, the common denominator is that these folks do not have any sort of income. And so part of what we’re trying to do is make sure that money is not a barrier to turning your life around,” Breed said, according to The Telegraph.

Individuals who take part in the program can earn even more money by acquiring a job, enrolling in school, or even mediating situations that could result in violent confrontations. In other words, the program will compensate people for performing tasks that they should have been performing regardless. What happens if and when the money is no longer available? Will people continue to labor or will they abide by the law? Will they be required to be compensated in this manner indefinitely?

As reported by Newsweek, the initiative in San Francisco is modeled after one implemented in Richmond, California, which according to the American Journal of Public Health was responsible for a 55 percent reduction in gun homicide. Because this assertion is so bizarre, even the left-wing publication Mother Jones questioned whether paying people not to shoot others was genuinely effective in reducing crime or whether the city had simply been lucky.