I still think we should ban career criminals by sending them to the Lower 48. Maybe a 3-judge panel could be set up to determine this. Once banned - automatic, long-term jail sentences would be mandatory for anyone who was banned upon returning to Alaska. Getting rid of these few hundred career criminals would probably reduce crime by 99%. Think of the millions saved in the cost we pay for courts, jails, police -- not to even mention the direct cost to the victims of crime.