SAN FRANCISCO will begin paying people not to shoot people!

[MiamiOffshore]

https://sfist.com/2021/08/30/sf-will-be ... er-people/

THIS IS NOT A JOKE!


The program will be called the Dream Keeper Fellowship, though likely to be dubbed “Cash for Criminals” in the media, and will pay select people $300 a month to avoid gun incidents.

And in October, the city will begin a highly unconventional (though not unprecedented) solution. The Examiner reports on a pilot program to begin then that will essentially offer high-risk individuals $300 a month to not shoot anyone, or be shot themselves.

[gforester]

In any normal city that could be considered extortion.

[Miami_JBT]

Where do I sign up? I promise not to get shot for $300 a month.

[Tenzing_Norgay]

How much are they paying not to poop on the sidewalk? I can do that...

[tector]

Butch Cassidy (Paul Newman): "If he'd just pay me what he's spending to make me stop robbing him, I'd stop robbing him!"

[Odessaman]

Now, is that $300 a flat rate, or is it $300 per person that's not shot, but who definitely deserves it?