[CaptainCrunch]

I really think that the criminal code has to be re-examined in light of the gang violence that has really started to heat up in this country.

If your a known gang member or affiliated with a gang and you commit a crime with any kind of weapon its life with no parole, in other words the only way your getting out is on a slab. These gang members look at the short prison terms as a wetting, it makes them legitimate in the eyes of their peers.

If your an immigrant and your convicted of a gang related crime, then your deported that day, if your company doesn't want you back, we'll drop you off just outside of the border.

If its a gang related drug crime, then you take the normal sentence and double it.

We can try all we want to get these people out of the gangs, and that needs to continue, but these hard core gang members aren't going to change and chances are that they're going to take someone out with them, so the punishment has to be about setting an example and ensuring public safety over rehabilitation.