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[quote=Anonymous][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]

But the cost of a police officer is only a fraction of the cost of ineffective policing.  There's also court costs, incarceration costs, and the cost to victims.  And none of it working.

The benefit goes beyond reducing violence by transforming offenders into law-abiding citizens.[/quote]

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