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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Google "Office of Neighborhood Safety"

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/07/05/opinion/sunday/to-stop-crime-hand-over-cash.html?_r=0

From the program's director (emphasis mine):

[quote]In 2014, we celebrated the lowest number of firearm assaults and homicides in more than four decades. [b]Richmond recorded a 76 percent reduction in homicides and a 69 percent reduction in firearm assaults from 2007[/b], when the Office of Neighborhood Safety was created.

In reality, we’ve achieved these results not simply by the cash incentive. Our change agents work with about 150 clients a year, at a cost of about $20,000 per person, which pays for daily mentoring, coaching and companionship. [b]By comparison, it costs our city about $200,000 to hire one new police officer[/quote].[/b][/quote]

Not arguing if this is good or bad, but the bolded quote shows just how immune to caring about the cost the people implementing it are, since the $200,000 cited is but a fraction of the three million dollars the program costs.  Do they not know how to multiply 20,000 by 150?[/quote]

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