[0] includes a segment about Richmond, CA's program to reduce violent crime. I wasn't particularly interested in the ethics of "paying criminals not to commit c

[0] includes a segment about Richmond, CA's program to reduce violent crime. I wasn't particularly interested in the ethics of "paying criminals not to commit crime", but rather how such a small group of people were responsible for so much of it. If I remember the segment correctly, the first group of participants (few enough to fit around a table in a conference room) were believed to be responsible for over half the crime in the city. [1] is similar. A single handgun is believed to have been used in ten shootings in Seattle (and I think there have been more added to that number since then), so SPD were investing quite a lot of effort in trying to find the possessors of that one firearm. 0: http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/555/the-incredible-rarity-of-changing-your-mind http://www.thisamericanlife.org/radio-archives/episode/555/t... 1: http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2015/07/16/police-looking-for-gunmen-pistol-tied-to-ten-shootings/ http://spdblotter.seattle.gov/2015/07/16/police-looking-for-...