After September 11, The United States cannot afford to wastevaluable resources on misplaced priorities and ineffectiveprograms. Common sense dictates that resources should be shiftedaway from the ineffective programs of the DOJ to programs that willbetter protect America's security.
To address gang-related crime appropriately, the nationalgovernment should adhere to federalist principles and limit itselfto tasks that are within its constitutionally designed sphere andthat state and local governments are not well situated to perform.State and local governments are the most appropriate level ofgovernment to develop policies to prevent and suppress mostgang-related crime.