One of the questions I had—Well, first I need to get a bit of clarification, based on Mr. Lee's comments.
My understanding of reverse onus simply means that it's up to the individual who's been charged to prove that they should not be remanded in custody but should actually be released. The way I interpreted his comments was that everyone, under reverse onus, is going to remain in jail until their hearing. I don't know whether I'm correct on that, but anyway, I wanted to clarify that.
The question I have relates specifically to—Your one chart indicates that robberies with a firearm continue to decline, which I accept in terms of what your statistics say. What I have a question about is how this relates to “Individuals in non-sentenced custody account for a growing proportion of all adults in custody”.
If I understand your stats correctly, yes indeed, robberies with a firearm are declining, but in fact most of those who are in a non-sentenced custody situation—or at least, according to the changes up to 2005, most of them—are actually remanded or are on some other form of detention versus actually having to remain in custody.