In July 2020, following the George Floyd riots, Mayor Bill de Blasio disbanded the NYPD’s anti-crime unit, which led to a sharp rise in murders and shootings across Gotham. In response, Hizzoner called a news conference in Harlem in which he vowed to address crime’s “root causes.”
No one quite knew what he meant — until now. It turns out the solution is handing out cash to gun thugs.
Through an outfit called Advance Peace, the city will offer a stipend of $1,000 per month (“transformational opportunities”) to “young men involved in lethal firearm offenses,” at the same time pairing them with “neighborhood change agents” — “credible messengers, meaning they bring life experience, conflict mediation and mentorship skills to the target population.”
If giving a grand a month to violent teens — on the proviso that they receive “mentoring” from older ex-cons — sounds like a good use of money, well, you’re in luck. According to Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, investing in the Advance Peace model “isn’t only a moral obligation, it’s a governing imperative.”
Williams — who himself avoids street violence entirely by living within the secure confines of Brooklyn’s federally managed Fort Hamilton Army Garrison — and his associates claim that Advance Peace is “evidence-based” and has a demonstrated track record of success. But a look at the organization’s own reports indicates that the model’s record is, in the best cases, mixed.
Read more at NY Post.
{Matzav.com}
Those of us struggling to balance bills, tuitions and taxes: now you know what kind of programs your hard earned and then lawfullu confiscated money goes.
Gotta love NY, gotta love Dems.
Can he give those who are unemployed $1000 a month as well? We could desperately use the money to stay out of trouble. The City Council l agreed to this?
There was some kind of deal that Obama tried to make with lawmakers in 2011 that was dubbed “The Grand Bargain.” But de Blasio’s offer, in which he gives away a GRAND a month to violent offenders, seems like a real “GRAND Bargain”! Or perhaps we can simply dub it the “Green New Deal.”
This is exactly like Sedom. I used to wonder how people had such a perverted sense of
“justice” in Sedon. I still don’t understand it but when I see people todaywho act exactly like the Medroshim describe Sedom I understand that the people in Sedom weren’t lunatics. They were just like many of the intelligent , educated and well mannered liberals today
De Blasio is a gitteh neshumeh.