Take it a step further. Declare that all gangs are terrorist organizations and bring in the Special Forces.
>Build a huge concentrate camp on one of the channel islands and drop by aircraft a little food once in a while.<
Bad idea! Too close to California. A much better location is:
Johnston Island is a low sand and coral island, 717 miles W.S.W. of Honolulu. It is 1,000 yards long, about 200 yards wide, and reaches a greatest height of 44 feet in “Summit Peak” near its eastern end.
The United States Fish and Wildlife Service is scheduled to gain oversight of the island in 2004 as a wildlife refuge. It is not normal practice for a wildlife refuge to be established over a plutonium landfill and there is still considerable concern that the contaminants absorbed by fish could carry the threat elsewhere.
http://www.janeresture.com/johnston/