They are organised gangs of career criminals. The law needs to be far, far tougher on repeat offenders - we shouldn't be releasing criminals who have already d

They are organised gangs of career criminals. The law needs to be far, far tougher on repeat offenders - we shouldn't be releasing criminals who have already demonstrated they will reoffend. It's a power-law distribution - there's a lot of crime, but only a few criminals responsible for it. That small group of hardcore criminals commits 80-90% of the offences.