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Ah yes, more money being spent to fight the War on Drugs. Get ready as we go deeper into the rabbit hole as the only way to fight these crazy drug dealers is to spend more and more money to fight and lock them up.
This is not how you defeat gangs. More will pop up in their place as there will always be incentives to traffic, make, and sell drugs. It's a business, and the more you fight it, the bigger the profits for the cartels. I can't think of anything better that promotes gang activity and an influx of illegal immigrants than creating a major market share of the drug trade.
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So, whats your solution? I have one....When the young gang members get hauled in to the juvy and go before the juvy judge they need to get more than a hand slapping for their dirty deeds. Lock em up for 6 months or more and put them to work around the community doing clean up. Too often they are released to their parents and told to go home and be good. That just isn't working,so we need to start getting alot tougher on these kids while they are young and make them responsible for their actions.
The problem with your solution, overfifty, is that we just can't afford it. I'm not sure what would fail first, the costs of incarcerating the juveniles or the amount of bed space to do so. It's just not feasible.
My solution is to end the War on Drugs. Prohibition of alcohol made normal citizens criminals and empowered the gangs to be the most powerful organization in America. Prohibition of drugs is absolutely no different. The gang problem is obviously out of control, and they are being supported by having drugs illegal. Gangs would not be able to survive economically if they didn't have any income from drugs.
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Your solution to end the war on drugs would be to what...legalize drugs and have the government regulate the process? Before we could even think about legalizing drugs we would have to totally secure our borders, deport every illegal alien in America, make funds available for the thousands of treatment centers that would be needed,and of course we'd have to loose the liberal bleeding heart mentality that America can save the world....(aint gonna happen)! If we don't have the funds now to toughen up the laws that are already in place, where do you propose to find funding to execute a whole new system for the legalization of drugs? Do you honestly have that much faith in our government?
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Many thanks to State Senator Prentice, (D) Renton, who is responsible for the last-second stripping of the funding for the new gang law, as well as it's most important clause, allowing law enforcement to stop and question obvious gang members who are flashing their colors, which tell a lot of their intended activities in the next few hours. She felt such a clause was "Profiling" and racist. While few local gang members are anything but Hispanic, there are many white and black gangs as well. Sen. Prentice is Hispanic, and an activist for the Hispanic community and illegal immigrants "rights", according to my information. That said, I believe her actions to destroy the new gang law is based upon the very thing she accuses other of, and is reversed racism in full swing. She certainly is not serving her state or upholding her oath of office with such blatant race-based favoritism.
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