De Blasio Brings ‘Pay Not to Slay” Program to New York City
$1000 per month to violent youths for not committing violent crimes.
Mon Aug 23, 2021 Joseph Klein
New York City’s far left progressive mayor, Bill de Blasio, and Public Advocate Jumaane Williams are rolling out what amounts to a legally sanctioned protection racket. The idea is to select potentially dangerous youths in areas of the city with high levels of gun violence who will receive individual mentoring. If they stick with the program, the city will pay them off with a stipend of $1000 per month.
Instead of facing prison time for committing a violent crime, the wayward youths will be paid not to commit a crime. Forget about adequately funding the police. Just send the money over to violent youths so that they have some more funds to buy their next fix without robbing someone at gunpoint.
“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,” wrote Seth Barron, the managing editor of The American Mind and author of the book “The Last Days of New York.” Barron correctly blasted the idea of using local community activist groups with spotty records to disperse “$1,000 monthly stipends to gangster protégés of ex-con mentors” as “truly insane.”
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/2021/08/de-blasio-brings-pay-not-slay-program-new-york-joseph-klein/
