Where can I sign up to be designated a high risk? $300/month plus a 'life coach' to help you not shoot people. What a deal!

https://www.newsweek.com/new-s...shoot-others-1624676

New San Francisco Initiative to Pay Individuals Not to Shoot Others

A new program in San Francisco 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.

Davis explained that the program is not "transactional," but will rather focus on making investments in communities most impacted by violence.

"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 said.

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.

There are opportunities for participants to earn an additional $200 each month as they work to improve their community. Some ways they can earn more are by working, going to school and even being a mediator in situations that could lead to violence.

Davis hopes the program will engage participants, make them more civic-minded, and allow them to be a part of the solution. In the long term, she hopes it will create safer communities.

"These small investments can transform the lives of individuals, but they can also transform communities," Davis said.

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.

It's being funded through the Dream Keeper Initiative, which is San Fransisco's effort to redirect funding into the Black community. The initiative supports a variety of programs, including an art complex, youth development and education, guaranteed income programs, and homeowner promotion says Mayor London Breed's office.

Gun violence in San Fransisco has increased in 2021, according to mid-year data released by the police department. In the first half of the year, there were 119 gun violence victims, more than double from 2020, when the mid-year number was 58.

The city reported 26 homicides in the mid-year statistics, up from 22 in 2021.

Gun violence has increased nationwide since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the Gun Violence Archive. So far in 2021, there have been 13,601 gun-related deaths, including homicide, murder and unintentional shooting deaths. For all of 2020, that number was 19,411. It was 15,448 in 2019.

An analysis from March by the San Francisco police found that most gun violence is linked to 12 high-risk groups with "extensive justice system histories."

I have personally owned firearms for 20+ years. Before that I still did my share of shooting.

I have, crazily enough , NEVER SHOT ANYBODY. I feel like I deserve some back pay, no??

Jesus we really are idiocracy.

I'm sure there's quite a few people who are going to feel "dissed" that they didn't make the list and get free money. Those people just might step up their efforts.

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An analysis from March by the San Francisco police found that most gun violence is linked to 12 high-risk groups with "extensive justice system histories."

They ended the article without naming the 12 groups. WHAT ARE THEY? I want to know if I'm inclusive of these groups so I can sign up.

If Chicago, Portland, Seattle, St Louis, New York and Boston join this program, then I can pretty much retire since I tend to drift around at any given time

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Originally posted by radioman:
I want to know if I'm inclusive of these groups so I can sign up.

You're a legal gun owner who has worked for a living and hasn't glommed off the state with some built-in excuse. You don't qualify.

I’ll take $300 a month, put it to good use. I suppose I don’t ‘qualify’.

You have to give them credit. They are reaching levels of ignorance in governing that should only be theoretically possible.

As long as our National Gov't (you and I) continues to fund and bankroll States like CA this shit will continue and get worse.

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"We need to be getting to the root causes of why some neighborhoods are safer than others," Davis said.

Wow! If we could only figure that one out!

I love it when leftists- who believe they're more intelligent than everyone else- behave has if they can't figure out the most obvious things.

Can I use my $300 / month to buy ammo?

This type of program is one of the reasons I left San Francisco.

I lived in San Francisco for 25 years. The first ten years was great. I did a lot of recreation in the ocean... abalone diving, fishing, boating.

I liked all the different restaurants in San Francisco. A good bowl of pho on a wet and cold winter day in San Francisco was amazing.

It was good for my career, because I work in tech.

But the city government there is unbelievably bad.

I left San Francisco 5 years ago and reading articles like this one only serve to reinforce my decision.

I get the intent.

Pick 10 young people who have fairly shitty lives and perhaps a few hundred dollars a month and a life coach can help pull them out of the cycle of gangs, violence and drugs.

Young people are impressionable. $300 bucks a month and a mentor might be enough for someone to say, "Yeah, that gang really wasn't doing much for me anyway." A new pair of shoes or some new clothes when you are broke AF can go a long way to improving a kid's confidence. $300 a month might be enough to make sure someone's kid brother gets some cereal for breakfast when their deadbeat parents can't provide.

I think it's worthwhile at the scale they're attempting (10 individuals) and paired with a life coach/mentor. We mentored an "at risk" teen (now an adult in nursing school) through the Big Brother Big Sister organization, and it really just takes a little to make a big difference. We were specifically asked not to give money or subsidize their living expenses (but paying for activities or meals while out together would be okay), but I can see how if the organization gave a monthly stipend to these kids how that could work really well in conjunction with the mentorship.

It won't change a single thing.

If you have to try to bribe someone to not commit violent crimes, you've already lost.

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Originally posted by parabellum:
It won't change a single thing.

If you have to try to bribe someone to not commit violent crimes, you've already lost.

I think that undersells the program initiative.

Agree that bribing someone to not commit violence is bound to fail.

However, mentorship can be life changing. The program provides mentorship.

The stipend is to ensure participation in the mentorship program. Otherwise, you'd never get these gangbangers to participate.

Let's mark this and check the crime stats in two years and see what happens.

My prediction: Crime will continue to increase in San Francisco.

I don't see that it will change anything either.

What it will do is provide relatively high paying city jobs for the managers of the program and the life coaches. These program managers and life coaches will collect from the city, but their results won't really be measured. Nor will you here about it if the people in the program continue their violent ways.

The article says they are people who are known to the justice system.

Whatever happened to the concept of placing hardened career criminals in jail for long periods of time?

<South Park>“Don’t feed the homeless.” </South Park>

I'm also skeptical. These are people who have records already. I would question whether they have competencies that would be receptive to mentorship and development constructive vocational skills.

At best, these people would just gain better skills on how to better manage as a drug dealer.

I don't think anything will change unless the environment and social associations change - in other words, physically displace these people from their current environment and social circles.

I'm a SF native, 4th gen but moved away 10+ years ago, the violence problem this is targeted is confined to a very small segment of the city; its so tiny that the vast majority of residents aren't affected. We'll see how 10-people can be changed. Having a 'mentor' can be huge, the pathetic part is these people are so far distant in terms of socio and economic understanding of how society works, that they'll likely be perpetually poor and indigent for the rest of their lives.