Crime fees

DC Wants To Pay People Not To Commit Crime

I think the project should be named Danegeld.

Proposing we just give our lunch money to the bullies.

I do have questions:
How do they prove they didn’t commit a crime?
Seems rather like a payment for not getting caught.

What’s the risk of signing up, do you get a stiffer sentence if you fail?
Rhetorical.