{"id":12354,"date":"2015-04-07T09:00:49","date_gmt":"2015-04-07T13:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=12354"},"modified":"2015-04-10T08:05:03","modified_gmt":"2015-04-10T12:05:03","slug":"the-economics-of-helping-the-government-find-a-criminal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2015\/the-economics-of-helping-the-government-find-a-criminal\/","title":{"rendered":"The Economics Of Helping The Government Find A Criminal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/040715_1205_TheEconomic1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"641\" height=\"850\" \/><\/p>\n<p>On Reddit&#8217;s &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/explainlikeimfive\/\">Explain Like I&#8217;m Five<\/a>&#8221; sub-reddit, user <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/user\/romanapplesauce\">romanapplesauce<\/a> asked how a reward for providing the authorities with information that leads to somebody&#8217;s capture works. Highlights of the responses include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The rewards are on a first come first serve basis. If ten people give the same information then the first person to come forward with it will get the money.<\/li>\n<li>An &#8220;up to&#8221; amount is specified so that if a couple people come in with different pieces of useful information the reward is split between them.<\/li>\n<li>The amount of the reward might be weighted by the usefulness of the information so that the most helpful tip is awarded the most cash.<\/li>\n<li>If the person who is captured is then acquitted by a court of law, the person who provided the information is still eligible for the award.<\/li>\n<li>The money is taxable income and must be declared to the IRS.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The information is unsourced so if you&#8217;re planning to do something based on this, maybe talk to a lawyer first, just in case? The full discussion is wide ranging and covers many other topics including the why governments offer a bounty in the first place and much more. Read it <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/explainlikeimfive\/comments\/31p75s\/eli5_how_do_fbi_rewards_work\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/explainlikeimfive\/comments\/31p75s\/eli5_how_do_fbi_rewards_work\/\">Reddit<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Reddit&#8217;s &#8220;Explain Like I&#8217;m Five&#8221; sub-reddit, user romanapplesauce asked how a reward for providing the authorities with information that leads to somebody&#8217;s capture works. Highlights of the responses include: The rewards are on a first come first serve basis. If ten people give the same information then the first person to come forward with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":12353,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12354","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/040715_1205_TheEconomic1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12354"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12368,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12354\/revisions\/12368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12354"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12354"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12354"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}