San Francisco to launch ‘Dream Keeper Fellowship’ scheme to offer cash for not capturing folks

San Francisco’s newest month-to-month allowance scheme provides 300$ per thirty days to pick group of criminals or future criminals for not resorting to capturing. The No Shooting Allowance venture is being financed by the San Francisco’s Dream Keeper Fellowship which is able to give away present playing cards to 10 chosen candidates more than likely to interact in gun violence in the event that they keep away from gun crime.
According to the New York Post, the scheme is linked to the Mayor’s two yr plan of investing 120 million {dollars} within the metropolis’s black neighborhood and would supposedly be run on tax payers’ cash additionally funded by personal donations and a doable federal grant. A doable growth to 75 folks a yr is anticipated.
The plan of lowering violence by way of a month-to-month allowance relies on a pilot venture that was applied in Richmond California in 2016 which supposedly had lowered violence in keeping with the officers. However, the Richmond venture got here underneath fireplace when Dawaun Rice, a 22-year-old member of the scheme, received sentenced for 40 years for murdering two folks, that included a 17-year-old boy, in two separate shootings whereas nonetheless being a part of this system. According to a 2016 interview with KGO, Yolanda Ficklin-Prothro, the mom of 1 Rice’s victims mentioned, “You didn’t take their guns. You were giving them money to buy more guns.” 
Rev. Eugene Rivers III, a founding father of the Seymour Institute for Black Church and Policy Studies, referred to as the San Francisco scheme a “policy gimmick” and a “terrible idea.” He additionally mentioned “For many young people, it will be Christmas in … October”.
However, San Francisco Mayor London Breed maintained that the scheme was not meant to offer money to criminals. “We’re looking at ways in which we can provide incentives,” Breed advised KPIX. “Incentives to keep them motivated, to keep them searching for a better opportunity is what this program is about,” he added.
The program’s pilot shall be launched in October and shall be referred to as ‘Dream Keeper Fellowship’.