>You define a group by the crimes they commit. If you identify a group, you'll often see they are homgenous in ethnicity, religion and age. That is the difficult part. The problem always was that the police did not want to give them any excuse for discrimination so they tend to be much to tolerant. I think those days are over and we have to take some action.

I guess I'm still having trouble with the "group" part of all this. If you have 3-strikes and your out or leave the country if you do this, then how would anyone outside of committing those crimes be affected? If the problem is truly within the "group" then only they would be affected. If someone outside the "group" commits the same crimes, then why should they be excluded from the punishment? Do you not see how anything else is biased?