The tougher sentences will help with that. To put them in and take them out is not helping society. It's not helping the kids. They come out, and, as Mr. Wamback said, a lot of them think it's pretty cool.
I was in court to see my brother's murderer. His friends, who were little gang members--I couldn't believe it, they were 13-year-old and 14-year-old kids--were walking into court and giving a sort of salute to the accused murderer. Some of them, because the court was sealed, came with drugs--in court--and they knew they were going to....
I'd love to say that society is all great, that we haven't lost something somewhere, but we have. It is proven. If we open our eyes, we see it. It's time to take care of it.
I hear it. I hear that we need to rehabilitate and all these things. I hear it. Until we do it, though, why risk human lives? Until you figure it out, until you get better programs in jail, until jail becomes better for rehabilitation, why are we risking human lives?
That part I'm still struggling with.