Hammer-Head
It's tiring listening to the right espouse ideas which they have no proof will work.
Loony Left? What decade are you living in?
For the record, I was brought up in a one-parent immigrant family and had it drummed into me that education was the key and nothing else. This is how I've done well in life. You right wingers concentrate on what to do once the kids have gone bad - you have nothing to say about how to prevent this.
Yeah - put them in stocks, yeah - build more prisons, yeah -throw them in jail whatever age they are...
Why in God's name aren't you addressing the causes? Why aren't you thinking "Hang on, what living conditions are these babies being brought into? What funding do social services have? What kind of schools do these kids go to?"
What you're doing is chopping off the leg once it's got gangrene (no idea how that's spelled). Whereas what you should be doing is preventing the infection in the first place.
Capiche?