Judicial Watch
In a curious twist, a “reformed” criminal hired by the District of Columbia’s chief legal officer to help curb violence has been arrested and charged with murder. The case involves a taxpayer-funded public safety program known as Cure the Streets launched by D.C. Attorney General Karl Racine to reduce gun violence by treating it as a disease that can be interrupted and stopped from spreading. Cure the Streets typically hires men and women with criminal histories as violence interrupters because they know first-hand about the challenges that residents of crime-infested communities live with. Racine, who was reelected to a second term in 2018, says the transformed criminals hired by his program perform community-driven public safety work that can avoid using police.
Here is how they carry out the task, according to Racine’s office: By interrupting potentially violent conflicts because they have relationships and influence within targeted neighborhoods. Violence interrupters “engage with the community to learn about brewing conflicts and resolve them peaceably before they erupt in violence,” the program’s website states. Violence interrupters also identify and treat individuals at high risk for involvement with violence by meeting with them and implementing individualized risk reduction plans.
That’s like putting Hunter Biden in charge of security at the DEA evidence lockers.
What could possibly go wrong?
Oh wow.
This story is awesome with a cigarette.
I may read it again. So good.
Wait until they interrupt a pedophile that’s hammering a 6 year old boy and put him in charge of protecting daycare centers and elementary schools.
Unlike a stupid liberal democrat, I can actually foresee a problem.
An ex-con being a “violence interrupter” is like leving the elected in charge of elections.
Isn’t how the Mob worked, Just hire the underlings.
I hired a fox to watch the chickens, tonight is his first night. I’ll let you know how it goes.
To know that I only live an hour from that shithole really upsets me. And the surrounding counties are just as bad.
Friends, I give you the progressive movement in a nutshell. Show me one damn thing that they touch that they don’t turn to into shit and I just might reconsider.
JDHasty
Mexican Cartels. What do I win? LOL
It worked. He violently interrupted someone’s life.
In grandpa’s day this was called “putting a fox in charge of the chicken coupe”.
Today, we are more sophisticated and woke than that.
YEEAAAH.
D. C. Should ban guns to cure Gun violence
“D. C. Should ban guns to cure Gun violence”
Statistically only Liberals commit gun violence. We need to ban Libtards.
They knew who they were hiring: a thug to train more thugs for the left. He did his job, and he’s disposable.
All that’s missing is michelle obama in jackboots (wide enough to put a telephone pole in).
Isn’t that what cops are– violence interrupters? So I wonder if there will be any widespread looting and burning?
“Cure the Streets typically hires men and women with criminal histories as violence interrupters…”
Wasn’t Saint George Floyd employed in a similar ex-con scam?
That’s a rhetorical question. Of course he was.
Seattle hired a former pimp for 150K a year to do a similar job-what could go wrong!
Like nobody saw that coming…..
Portland needs some mostly peaceful riot interrupters. This is like the drug ads on late night TV. Ask your mayor (doctor) if this program (drug) is right for you.
Sat on a jury for a woman who’s car was stolen from a auto dealership while it was in for repairs.
The security company for the dealership had hired a convicted car thief and gave him the weekend night shift for his first assignment. Only took the first weekend for him to grab the keys and the car.
They never did a background check!
When the prosecutor displayed the regulations for working in security, I saw it was the exact regulations my scope of work had. No convictions for theft being one of them.
We gave her all but one of her asks before we got to the punitive part. She was at about $3,200 at that point. Pretty small considering what she went through and the stupidity of the security company.
The woman asked for $90,000 to $180,000 on that part.
I was pretty well P.O.’d at the security company by the end of the trial, as were the other jury members. Their lawyer did them no favors by the tack he took. I was jury foreman and had great pleasure in delivering a $350,000 judgement for her. The way she jumped up out of her chair with relief and joy was a sight to behold. She went through a lot of hardship because of their greed.
If you ever consider hiring Silver Star Security, I advise you not to. They don’t really care about you. Their lawyer made that clear. Stupid lawyer. Stupid, selfish, greedy, and dangerous security company.
I think whoever approved of and hired this violence
interrupterinstigator should be held accountable for this result.