Gang Members Get New Suit

No, not clothes. The city of Fort Worth has filed a lawsuit against one of the city's gangs. Read the entire article here: http://www.nbc5i.com/news/13388639/detail.html?rss=dfw&psp=news.

Honestly, I'm having a little bit of trouble following the logic here, so maybe someone out there can enlighten me. I've got two basic assumptions going into this, and either or both of them may be incorrect, so I'll let you check them out:

1. It seems to me that when you file a lawsuit, you have a basic assumption that both parties involved are going to obey the terms of the ruling. Basically, you assume at some level that everyone involved intends to follow the law and that some disagreement over how that should happen needs to be resolved by a judge. Of course it's true that one of the parties in a lawsuit has broken the law, but their defense will be that they haven't or that it was justified.
   
2. On the other hand, I also assume that members of a gang generally intend to break the law. They knowingly and deliberately violate statutes both as entertainment and for initiation. Their general objective is to become their own law enforcement in the area where they reside and they flaunt the fact that they don't have to follow the rules of the establishment.
   

Given that both of my assumptions are true, then what's the point of a lawsuit? Does anyone really expect the gang members to abide by the decision that is handed down (like we can't already assume that it will be in favor of the city)? Why are tax payer dollars being spent to fund a case that can't possibly go anywhere?

Based on the information provided in the article, it seems that the best case scenario is that the judge will rule that the gang has to reduce street crime. The gang is not going to care about that ruling any more than they cared about the laws that were already in place in the first place. So now the police are still trying to enforce the same laws that already existed before the lawsuit.

It seems to me that a better course of action would be for the city to spend money and resources on either creating or improving the statutes that will allow law enforcement to better police the gangs and increase conviction rates. Or to spend money on increasing the police presence so that arrests and convictions can be made. A lawsuit against a gang is just silly.