Why not just enforce the existing laws

Since it would take too much effort and brains to arrest criminals what politicians do is create new, "stricter" laws to make the bad guys go away.

"Criminal street gangs have become an epidemic across our state," said Assembly Majority Leader Bonnie Watson Coleman (D-Mercer), a sponsor of the package. "They are destroying neighborhoods. They are terrorizing residents. They are engaging in crime, violence, and general depravity. Most alarmingly of all, they are corrupting our children." link