{"id":145841,"date":"2021-02-18T14:10:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-18T19:10:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=145841"},"modified":"2021-02-18T14:43:20","modified_gmt":"2021-02-18T19:43:20","slug":"pay-killers-to-bring-down-homicide-rate-baltimore-activist-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/pay-killers-to-bring-down-homicide-rate-baltimore-activist-says\/","title":{"rendered":"Pay Killers To Bring Down Homicide Rate, Baltimore Activist Says"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fpay-killers-to-bring-down-homicide-rate-baltimore-activist-says%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=145841&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-76185969-1200x800-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>A Baltimore activist who had spent 18 years in prison then turned to efforts to stem violence in the city has an idea for combatting massive number of homicides in the city: pay people not to kill others.<\/p>\n<p>Tyree Moorehead, who was jailed at the age of 15 for 18 years after a second-degree murder conviction, told <a href=\"https:\/\/foxbaltimore.com\/news\/city-in-crisis\/a-baltimore-activists-idea-to-bring-down-murder-rate-pay-killers-not-to-kill\">FOX 45<\/a>, \u201cI can relate to the shooters, guess what they want? They want money. \u2026 I\u2019ve talked to these people, I\u2019ve seen the shooters, it\u2019s a small city, I know who the hustlers are. \u2026 I can\u2019t stop the shootings, no one in this world has proven to stop the shootings not even the church. But what we can do is put them in compliance.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs of 2019, he painted nearly 200 \u2018<a href=\"https:\/\/foxbaltimore.com\/news\/city-in-crisis\/a-baltimore-activists-idea-to-bring-down-murder-rate-pay-killers-not-to-kill\">No Shoot Zones<\/a>\u2019 throughout the city, according to WJZ-TV reporter Paul Gessler,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/us\/baltimore-activist-suggests-paying-killers-not-to-kill-to-solve-citys-high-murder-rate\">Fox News<\/a>&nbsp;reported, adding, \u201cIn 2020, the city eclipsed 300 homicides for the sixth year in a row, while&nbsp;recording more than 1,000 shootings.\u201d<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Since 2015, rapper Tyree Moorehead has painted nearly 200 &#8220;No Shoot Zones&#8221; throughout Baltimore.<\/p>\n<p>Since July, we&#8217;ve been working on a story with him about what drives him and whether they work. It airs tonight at 5:30 on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/wjz?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@wjz<\/a>. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/PzAgIP89yW\">pic.twitter.com\/PzAgIP89yW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Paul Gessler (@PaulGessler) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/PaulGessler\/status\/1201910543755481088?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 3, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former Baltimore Police spokesman T.J. Smith told FOX 45 that he didn\u2019t think Moorehead was correct that paying would-be killers not to kill would work, saying, \u201cIt could make it easier for people to get their hands on guns because they now have an influx of a different level of cash.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2016, Richmond, California, a suburb of San Francisco, tested a program called \u201cAdvance Peace. \u201d \u201cThe 18-month fellowship hires convicted felons to \u2018court\u2019 troubled youth \u2014 who so far have avoided arrest due to lack of evidence \u2014 with offers of cash and out-of-town vacations if they mend their ways,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/one-california-city-is-paying-people-not-to-commit-crimes\">Fox News<\/a> reported. \u201cIf, after six months, a \u2018fellow\u2019 in the voluntary program begins to achieve specific goals, they can earn up to $1,000 a month,\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, after Sacramento adopted an Advance Peace program, Sacramento County District Attorney Anne Marie Schubert <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcra.com\/article\/things-to-know-about-the-program-sacramento-hopes-with-curb-gun-violence\/12122507\">expressed her concerns<\/a>, saying, \u201cI support the gang prevention task force and the many evidence-based youth mentoring and intervention programs already in existence in the city of Sacramento. I have serious concerns with a program that is apparently based upon the payment of money to high-risk individuals in exchange for a promise not to engage in violent criminal conduct. There is insufficient evidence-based data to show this approach is effective in preventing gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The founder of Advance Peace, Devone Boggan, told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/story\/how-cities-could-pay-men-with-a-history-of-gun-violence-9000-to-clean-up-their-lives-2017-07-15\">MarketWatch<\/a> in 2017 of the participants in the program, \u201cThey\u2019re getting a robust menu of opportunities thrown at them.\u201d The program works with those \u201cwho are trying to kill each other,\u201d he said. \u201cOur whole point is to neutralize gun violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTry to imagine a young man who has most of his life grown up in a literal urban war zone,\u201d Boggan added. \u201cHe\u2019s a trauma survivor living in chaos who doesn\u2019t have a lot of hard or soft skills. [The money] is a stabilizing factor while he\u2019s being developed, so to speak.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>The Daily Wire is one of America\u2019s fastest-growing conservative media companies and counter-cultural outlets for news, opinion, and entertainment. Get inside access to The Daily Wire by becoming a<\/em> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/subscribe\"><em>member<\/em><\/a><em>.&nbsp;<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Baltimore activist who had spent 18 years in prison then turned to efforts to stem violence in the city has an idea for combatting massive number of homicides in &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2181495,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-76185969-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Pay Killers To Bring Down Homicide Rate, Baltimore Activist Says","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145841","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/GettyImages-76185969-1200x800-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Pay Killers To Bring Down Homicide Rate, Baltimore Activist Says","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145841","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145841"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145841\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2181495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145841"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145841"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145841"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}