0:00 [Music] an nypd captain was able to identify 15 teens connected to a deadly shooting okay and now this one identified every single one of them they're like ████ the teens it might not even be it's not that necessarily like these are all the teams that uh that were accomplishes but these are just people that were connected to the crime that it so it's like one dude was a driver one dude was the shooter one dude saw it because he was sitting on the bench five kids were playing basketball but he knew them maybe they're teammates too they all just took a selfie right after the event yeah there's a team photo uh but yeah he's identified 15 of them that were connected to shooting and now he's paying them 150 bucks each to attend a healing circle
0:51 as a method to deter them from a life of crime 150 ease for healing circle okay what goes in the healing circle they sit down sound bath is that what that ████ that ████ oh they do the ████ bowl right wow wow pretty sure that ain't it those are like 25 bucks is there ayahuasca involved could be you probably do like a prayer or meditation ceremony but it's like in new york so the bull goes hey yo i'm walking here i'm walking here i'm healing here that's not real ████ pizza you call that a ████ bagel i'm italian so the boys meet up each week for a discussion led by a therapist at a local community center hmm yeah that's kind of cool why do you have to pay him to do that ████ cause he make them all or you just
1:42 go i'ma throw your ass in jail ████ that's not enough captain derby saint forte the commanding officer of the 61st precinct was inspired by a shooting that killed 17 year old devonta his name is oh is it because they're um these 15 kids are not what do you call it they're not um being indicted or they're they're they're not they didn't commit a crime he's trying to save them from committing more crime so they were just connected to it maybe they're not the actual yeah it's like a thing where i'm sure like if you're uh the nypd captain in brooklyn you probably know what path are headed down because of their affiliations so he's trying to save them from what you know would be statistically i can't wait to see a former reformed gangster talk about how yoga saved their life that'd be good that would be sick because i'm sick of the pastors already there's too many former gangster pastors
2:34 we don't need any more let's go down this let's go to other spiritual realms what else besides you never know because even convicts can have a heart of gold like you guys remember the part in the dark night when devo throws away the device yeah that was going to blow up the other ferry yeah i didn't see that coming i was like this guy's about to blow up the whole ████ fairy so i thought too and he's like nope and then change the heart and then chris chris nolan moated me he's like see you're wrong he did look super sinister too yeah he threw it out the window he sat down and everyone was scared to do anything dope what a good guy yeah so like here here's something in contrast so like obviously when i read that i was like what the ████ is that really gonna help uh i just imagine something like that being done with some people out here and i'm like there's no ████ way that'll do anything but uh how do you know you never tried interpretive dance to heal the soul see yeah but i i'm a dancer i never stopped to kill it you know what
3:25 the teens do i think the teens need to actually like do something they like because when i was getting hella trouble my mom would take me to ████ temples and she would try to do her own exorcisms on me and ████ a light incense and walk around me for 30 minutes every single night trying to get all the demons out of me none of that ████ ████ worked if she would just let me play my drums or let me do my kung fu's i think i wouldn't have stayed out of trouble what about talking to a therapist with the 15 to your family that's not more fun than drugs that s███'s not gonna work cause i went so i had anger management uh i have to say anger management counselor every thursday night did you like them because your mom huh no the my school made me if i wanted to stay at that school so i'm gonna kick me out but i have to go with my mom and uh that she doesn't help at all because your mom needed anger management because she beat you after are you sure it doesn't help because like you're fine
4:15 now yeah maybe it helps it was the ecstasy taught me how to love okay so we give these gangsters ecstasy yeah and some it's a fix of people they need to channel it into something fun something exciting because it has to be equivalent right if you're ████ out here selling drugs you have freedom you're a 15 year old kid you could do whatever the ████ you want right what is the equivalent what is going to balance that to me riding horses in the wilderness oh free but that hurts your balls you haven't thought about that right all right all right snowboarding both legs on the same side like a chick oh why do you say chase can't ride at normal no a rose did in titanic no they can't because they'll start coming okay yeah that's the best thing speaking of derby so here's a here's a little comparison right here um if
5:05 you're thinking like what the ████ 150 dollars just to attend this thing um that's one-tenth of the cost of keeping someone in prison for a day wow so they they see it as it's 1500 a day we don't care about prison costs though when we kill people who are on death row like how long did it take and how much money was that i mean give me a break and this money is not it's not police funding it's not the money's not uh from taxpayers or anything it's evidence money oh it's evidence money they're reusing it that's pretty cool is it out of his pocket it's from uh community donations oh please did the police have a lemonade stand that means they pulled you over and you had yeah they had a bake sale they had a bake sale using ████ evidence cocaine civil forfeiture yeah so they uh we build the block executive director dana ratchelin who runs the campaign behind the circle said it costs 30 000
5:57 for 16 weeks of meetings all funded by private donations and it's been four months since the group therapy sessions began and none of the 15 boys have been arrested see that's awesome told you it worked bro it's just one month is it though for now is it one more good for one month it's just because this generation is ████ ████ that's why that's why you everyone needs therapy if it was our era these fools would have just jumped the therapist it's robbed his ass yeah but these guys are soft now i know so uh yeah so as i'm reading this whose side are you on you get lower in this article you start going like oh so then i get to this part where um yeah so then i mean that this of course if someone say hey it's been four months no one's been arrested that doesn't honestly impress me because i'm ████ never arrested so but four months they need to ████ wait a year so i'm saying like i don't feel like it's a long time but i guess in that community
6:48 you're impressed by it they would have all been arrested four months is a long time though that's pretty cool if you're already headed down that path you're doing that kind of ████ like maybe every day every week what changed you and to turn from a life of crime for me it was selling drugs eternal weight from crime once again joe i just don't know what the ████ you're talking about honestly though it makes sense what he's saying is when you're doing non-productive crime selling drugs you actually start building an entrepreneurial mindset exactly and is weed illegal now thanks for translating it might sound like you down this road of actually doing less risk adverse behavior yeah so instead of fighting someone right because then it'll jeopardize your business yeah now you're fighting someone because they didn't pay you for the ████ dub sack that they borrowed or you hire out so instead of fighting somebody you host
7:39 the fight yeah you host the fight you sent invoices for the drugs you sold that's hella smart all right so uh criminals substitute drugs with like pokemon cards and be totally fine but i see what you're trying to say they're not that lucrative it's always about what they're trying to say and you don't get ████ the way you do if you sell drugs yeah that's true since uh this program got out there uh criminologists are like now kind of criticizing it and they're saying that well further study is needed to see if the program can be replicated there's a quote from uh professor john from john jay college in manhattan since he's from new york i gotta read it like hey he goes someone's carrying a gun they've already said whatever i could do my five years upstate [Laughter] and you're saying he's 150 bucks is that going to change things no oh my god no and and he's and they're also pointing out that the teens that have gone to the sessions are still being getting in
8:29 trouble with a lot two teenagers who briefly visited the circle were arrested last week in connection with a shooting at a mall so it's like is it working or they didn't do it dude they were just there yeah everybody's at the mall yeah people love them all if my mom was ████ watching though i'd be connected yeah she's like and you're paying them guys suck at me i want to see some nyc crime stats these these are like so this is a year apart everything that's red that's gone up so uh felony assault is up 11.5 murder is down good 18.8 shooting victims are up 31.6 rafe is up 26.5 jesus robbery is up 32.9 overall crimes up 37 is it because they defunded the police no it couldn't be that oh no no no never mind that's because they uh you know they funded criminals too much they didn't defund the the police okay
9:20 but yeah that's that's why uh the cool thing is this nypd captain is really trying to come up with some kind of way to uh make this a positive thing for the community i am more in the boat of i think that's pretty cool until it proves like it absolutely didn't work exactly yeah like it sounds really great in theory and it's got to do something it's facebook i just think that this is so much hard work you don't have to do this much work all you do is turn them into gamers dude turn them into ████ gamers i swear to god my little brothers found video games i never saw him again it's crazy and it's cheaper because you just gave him a sick console and then like you you'd be like yo he's here's a ████ streamy account yeah what was it called the stream yard stream though that's it and what's my brother doing i don't know he's playing a ████ game where he's delivering mail in the futuristic dystopian future and i'm like
10:10 i don't know what those just get them all in the metaverse and let them commit crimes there yeah get it out of your system in the metaverse you see that game before the guy who did metal gear oh yeah you have a mailman game yeah you walk around and deliver packages holding a big pack pack or whatever the ████ delivering post-apocalyptic time yeah those simulators are very mundane things are pretty typical so mundane that's enough to keep you from a murder tournament gamers the ████ easiest thing ever people just suck at convincing other people to do better ████ if i was there if i was there easily all the whole crime in the neighborhood would be out i think it's pretty great that they're getting these guys in the room that's like the main thing because at that in a moment like that that's when you can really tell them or at least focus them on something they might be really good at that's the key i think does it get people good at ████ it's too much uh personal choice i don't like that i think we should create a a tunnel in brooklyn like a you
11:01 know like a ████ manhole right like the sewer hole light it on fire right and just be like you go to ████ hell right now if you come in another crime i'll kick you in there like 300 kick you in a stomach ████ into a manhole check this out got this apartment for you this apartment has a computer has all the video games that you want also you see this phone right here we're gonna pay for the next six months of postmates you can eat whatever the ████ you want dog this just feels like another version of jen the book of genesis yeah and it's like take your pick this is how the mafia makes deals right they go here's a great ████ deal it's either that or i'm gonna kill you yeah okay of course take the deal yeah i would take the deal i'm not gonna get kicked in the stomach and fall into a fiery manhole i gotta play ████ diabolo three for six months yeah man bart quan's gonna order all the postmates for me oh man you're golden without postmates
11:51 unlimited yeah he doesn't know about that yet well then okay so like uh all the um ideas combined like if i re i really believe that a lot of people don't know they're good at ████ because they're too busy doing stupid ████ that's what i think you got to help people find what they do you help somebody figure out what they're like or if you're just the only person in life that tells them you're really ████ good at this and they chase it what happens to the people who aren't good at anything everyone's good at something you have to find it you'll find it yeah some people are really good at opening doors so they could just stand by walmart open the ████ out of that door i'm pretty good at opening doors i was an automatic doorway you want to be the door opening guy out of 15 kids in a healing circle i could keep it up that's what the game overcooked is for yeah people don't know how to ████ to do anything overcooked pisses me off [Music]
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