Can our current legal system effectively deal with gangs?
Yes, but they won't. Known gang member should be picked up on a regular basis, let us say weekly, taken to the station, question, held for 24 hours(at least) , no food or drink,
After a while these idiots(gang members) may get tired of this and quit.
It wont happen, but public beating would work also.
Silly liberal philosophy like the above will not help.
No, but our National Guard sure could. no, and not even the natl guard.
It all depends on what they are doing to confront the situation? In the current way things are set up, no, not a chance. Our system is set up of punishment and not actual childhood. We take people off the street, lock them within jail, and keep it moving till they get stern out on the streets. We are only trying to hide the symptom instead of in truth going in to figure out what the real problem is. The permissible system is set up, to punish offenders in ways that make no sense, a crack offense is ten times worse than a cocaine possesion offense, criminals are walking the street who continually hold getting locked up, jails are overcrowded and people that should be in lock up are being released because of no more room. It makes no sense. Gang's are set up in relation to what's scheduled in the area that they are formed in. Just locking up the member isn't going to stop it, it's a symptom of society thats been around for as long as we have had civilization. The with the sole purpose real way to combat it is to remove the need for it, but that's the bigger cross-question, because there is no broad reason, it's all in the order of the climate of the area. If the Government would key in on the hardest hit area's to determine what is making the gang so appealing, and then take on the task of removing those triggers from the community. But again, that would never ensue because there is to much money to be made in the current form of enforcement instead of allocuting money to really to determine the real issues.
