A convicted murderer-turned-community activist in Baltimore has a radical strategy to combatting the town’s beautiful homicide charge — pay criminals to not kill.
The controversial thought comes from Tyree Moorehead, who was 15 when he was put away for second-degree homicide and spent 18 years behind bars, Fox 45 reported.
“I can relate to the shooters,” the activist who now transforms scenes of lethal shootings into so-called “no-shoot zones.” “Guess what they need? They need cash.”
Baltimore has been wracked by violent crime in recent years, closing out 2020 with 335 homicides, according to statistics from the Baltimore Sun. In 2019, there have been 348 murders.
“I’ve talked to those individuals. I’ve seen the shooters. It’s a small metropolis, I do know who the hustlers are,” Moorehead mentioned.
The same technique has been used earlier than in Richmond, California, one of the vital harmful cities within the nation which paid criminals as much as $1,000 a month, in addition to supplied counseling and job assist, NPR reported in 2016.
The suburb of Oakland noticed its homicide charge minimize in half, the station mentioned.
Former Baltimore police spokesman TJ Smith agreed {that a} inventive strategy is required to thwart the violence within the metropolis — however money shouldn’t be the reply.
“It might make it simpler for individuals to get their palms on weapons as a result of they now have an inflow of a unique degree of money,” he instructed Fox 45.
