Crime Does Pay

In response to the Sacramento City Council's decision, 9-0, to pay gang members not to murder people I wonder at the old adage that said, "Crime Doesn't Pay". I guess it does. Will it not be long before pickpockets, breakers and enterers, embezzlers, dare we even to include the current fashionable, harassers, be given a salary by the city councils in order to not do their crimes?
On second thought, perhaps this innovation may be regarded as a progressivist way to solve the unemployment issue. Perhaps when funds get low I can enlist in a gang, and, I suppose, the amount of income will be according to how bad a gang it is. A really murderous gang will no doubt be even more greatly compensated---and perhaps should they also be dealing drugs this could only put one in a top tax bracket---perhaps the One Percent.