San Francisco will pay people not to shoot each other.

Its hard to believe anyone could propose so foolish a program.  But the elitist left is always looking for a way to throw away your resources. The cash-for-criminals pilot program, named "Dream Keeper Fellowship," launches in October.

"The San Francisco Examiner says that this program "already has shown promise in other parts of California" -- it's actually quite misleading. As Seth Barron wrote in the New York Post, the program has been tried in Stockton, where "only" 29% of the payees were subsequently arrested for new gun crimes. It was also tried in Sacramento, where its promoters boast that "only" 44% of participants were subsequently arrested on new charges — well, as long as you don't count about one-third of the participants who dropped out or were arrested in its first six months.

"As for this study (published in the AJPH) they reference about the program's supposed success in Richmond, they are basically arguing that the program's intervention with 21 people prevented a huge, otherwise-expected spike in gun crimes from occurring in the third quarter of 2010. How do we know? Because the crime spike didn't occur."

The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.

"Violent criminals need jail. They do not need cash. People who shoot other people need to be walled off in prisons and kept away from the rest of us. No one deserves to be paid for not shooting people."

(MSN)