@monsterislandcolonizer @YourAverageNewfag @deprecated_ii @ACL9000 I mean, they wouldn't even need to declare martial law, that would be an easy solution. They could also do what they did in NYC, set up check points in high crime areas. There are a ton of options, they just don't want to do any of them.

The key is that the broad black community vocally supported the three strikes laws, I think in the early 80s, because they understood it to work at keeping the worst troublemakers locked away.