{"id":325209,"date":"2021-08-16T03:52:55","date_gmt":"2021-08-16T00:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/de-blasios-plan-to-give-a-grand-a-month-to-violent-offenders-is-insane\/"},"modified":"2021-08-16T03:52:55","modified_gmt":"2021-08-16T00:52:55","slug":"de-blasios-plan-to-give-a-grand-a-month-to-violent-offenders-is-insane","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/de-blasios-plan-to-give-a-grand-a-month-to-violent-offenders-is-insane\/","title":{"rendered":"#De Blasio&#8217;s plan to give a grand a month to violent offenders is insane"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;<strong>#De Blasio&#8217;s plan to give a grand a month to violent offenders is insane<\/strong>&#8221;<\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n        <\/aside>\n<p>In July 2020, following the \u00adGeorge Floyd riots, Mayor de Blasio disbanded the NYPD\u2019s anti-crime unit, which led to a sharp rise in murders and shootings across Gotham. In response, Hizzoner called a <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/news\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"2\" title=\"News\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">news<\/a> conference in Harlem in which he vowed to address crime\u2019s \u201croot causes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>No one quite knew what he meant\u00a0\u2014 until now. It turns out the solution is handing out cash to gun thugs.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Through an outfit called \u00ad\u201cAdvance Peace,\u201d the city will offer a stipend of $1,000 per month (\u201ctransformational opportunities\u201d) to \u201cyoung men \u00adinvolved in lethal firearm \u00adoffenses,\u201d at the same time pairing them with \u201cneighborhood-change agents\u201d \u2014 \u201ccredible messengers, meaning they bring life experience, conflict-<a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">media<\/a>tion and mentorship skills to the target population.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If giving a grand a month to violent teens \u2014 on the proviso that they receive \u201cmentoring\u201d from older ex-cons \u2014 sounds like a good use of money, well, you\u2019re in luck. According to Public Advocate Jumaane Williams, investing in the Advance Peace model \u201cisn\u2019t only a moral obligation, it\u2019s a governing imperative.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Williams \u2014 who himself avoids street violence entirely by living within the secure confines of Brooklyn\u2019s federally managed Fort Hamilton Army Garrison \u2014 and his associates claim that Advance Peace is \u201cevidence-based\u201d and has a demonstrated track record of success. But a look at the organization\u2019s own reports indicates that the model\u2019s record is, in the best cases, mixed.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/jumaane-williams.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Public Advocate Jumaane Williams called the Advance Peace plan a &quot;governing imperative.&quot;\" class=\"wp-image-19140031\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/jumaane-williams.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/jumaane-williams.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/jumaane-williams.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Public Advocate Jumaane Williams called the Advance Peace plan a \u201cgoverning imperative.\u201d<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP Photo\/Brittainy Newman<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In Sacramento, three neighborhoods were targeted for an 18-month Advance Peace intervention, which really only covered 2019. Those districts did see a decline in \u201cgun homicides and gun assaults,\u201d compared to the mean of the previous 36 months, though the comparison period is skewed by the sharp rise in the national murder rate caused by the \u201cFerguson Effect\u201d in 2015. Murders across all of California, for example, rose steeply in 2015 and 2016, and then returned to pre-Ferguson levels.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Advance Peace program in Stockton, Calif., on the other hand, was a disaster. Murders rose from 28 in 2019 to 45 in 2020, up 60 percent, much higher than the 37 percent \u00adincrease nationwide.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The summary fact sheet for the Stockton program announces proudly that 71 percent of its 34 participants \u201care not a suspect in a new firearm-related crime.\u201d Similarly, the Sacramento program boasts that 44 percent of its 50 members \u201chad no new arrests.\u201d Of course, that doesn\u2019t account for the 17 original participants who dropped out or were arrested in the first six months.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>If you are tasked with keeping a busload-sized cohort of young men from getting arrested for a gun crime, and count it as a success when only a dozen or so get caught, maybe you need to \u00adreconsider your definition of achievement.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In New York City, agreements have been struck with community-based groups in Manhattan, Brooklyn and Staten Island to manage stipend-and-mentorship Advance Peace programs. The groups in question \u2014 \u00adincluding ManUp! in East New York and Street Corner Resources in Harlem \u2014 were selected because of their long experience in \u201cviolence interruption,\u201d of course, their close political ties to local leaders.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But one has to ask, if these are the groups that have been working so hard to stop violence in the neighborhoods they are rooted in, why are their neighborhoods so violent? Not to blame ManUp! or Street Corner Resources, but it isn\u2019t clear what they have been up to that deserves to be rewarded.\u00a0<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/east-ny.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"NYPD at the scene of a shooting in East New York, Brooklyn on August 8, 2021.\" class=\"wp-image-19140052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/east-ny.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/east-ny.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2021\/08\/east-ny.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>NYPD at the scene of a shooting in East New York, Brooklyn on August 8, 2021.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">Paul Martinka<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a year when murders citywide are running about even with 2020, the Street Corner Resources neighborhood precinct has seen eight killings, up from three last year, with shootings, felony assaults and burglaries far outpacing the city as a whole.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In East New York, ManUp!, which for years has operated as a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Charles and Inez Barron political machine, sits at the heart of one of Brooklyn\u2019s most violent neighborhoods, which last year notched about 15 percent of the borough\u2019s killings and 14 percent of its felony assaults. The two-year increase in murder so far is a staggering 63 percent.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Trusting these groups to \u00adadminister the disbursement of $1,000 monthly stipends to gangster prot\u00e9g\u00e9s of ex-con mentors is truly insane. But with de Blasio leaving office in a few months, what better way for him to establish the capstone of his depressing eight years in City Hall?\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><em>Seth Barron is managing editor of The American Mind and \u00adauthor of the new book\u00a0\u201cThe Last Days of New York.\u201d\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>Twitter: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SethBarronNYC\">@SethBarronNYC<\/a><\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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