Part of the system, and so are all of us. Like a radio circuit with capacitors, chokes, resistors: you can't pick out one capacitor and say that's what makes the circuit work.
The system is too slow to handle this bunch. They are multipyling faster than the system can handle them..
With lawyers getting extensions on trial dates and technicalities and laws that protect the criminal they cannot be handled as fast as they are growing.
I believe what this Police Chief is saying is that we are in a war and taking prisoners isnt working there are just too many of them for the system to handle. Its like trying to arrest the SS. They need to be destroyed. Now whether or not we agree on the rightness of this move or not is another subject, but I believe this is what the Chief is trying to say.