Your suggestion is as bad as the government here... because of the antics of a single-digit percentage of the population, you put forth a solution that has an impact on the remaining majority of the population who behaves nicely and goes about their daily lives without committing a single illegal or unlawful act each day.
Reminds me of that discretionary right-turn decision because of a few errant motorists... where instead of increasing the penalty for committing such acts, everyone has to wait for that red-right-turn arrow to turn green instead.