There is an immense different between a victimless crime and a crime involving a victim. If your crime willfully hurts someone else in any way that deserves a punishment strong enough that you think twice before ever doing it again. Locking people up isn’t even enough anymore. Maybe it’s time to rethink how we handle victim based crimes.
Incarceration and mandatory sentencing worked for a while, the crime rates and violent crime rates dropped for a couple of decades, but we're running out of jails and prison cells. We need to build more, and if the hod rats and their apologists don't like the racial mix that ends up there tough, they can choose deportation or death. Any gang member should also be charged for any crimes committed by his fellow gang bangers; if that means getting warehoused in a tent city in North Dakota in the winter, well too friggin bad, but it mostly means the first one convicted of murder in a death penalty state gets the rest of them executed along with the scumbag. 90% of the problem goes away in just a few weeks. Their parents can pay for all the expenses involved.