Three Strikes Law is not a solution to crime. There's a great deal of mass brainwash which happens when the news media prints the government press releases about crime statistics without ever mentioning the fact that they are useless. The public has been suckered with soundbites and statistics into thinking that crime is down because of Three Strikes, Mandatory Minimums, the Death Penalty and Prisons.
Nothing is further from the truth.
The Orange County Register, New York Times and Pennsylvania Newspapers have clearly exposed at least 15 variables in the way the statistics are prepared which make them useless as a true measure of crime. For example, not all police agencies report every year. Oakland hasn't reported for four years and the number of agencies who do report vary every single year. On this one variable alone, no previous year's crime statistics can be compared to another one accurately. Participation in reporting by the various agencies is strictly voluntary.