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City's Crime-Fighting Tactic: Pay Likely Killers

Program identifies at-risk people, provides stipends

(Newser) - As America's ninth most dangerous city in 2007, Richmond, California, needed a new way to fight crime. The resulting tactic has been unorthodox, but it may be working, writes Tim Murphy at Mother Jones . Four times per year, by combining police data and internal intelligence, the city's Office...

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