I do a lot of work with police services and I find them very committed to solving these problems. But one of the things that might be helpful.... If you anemically fund a problem, you're going to get poor results. So, wouldn't it be interesting if you could actually track the number of officers and the actual funding that is provided to organizations like the RCMP? You can have people who are committed to making this work, but if you're cutting the department, you're going to have poor responses.
So instead of being prescriptive—asking detailed...and telling the investigators who are very professional already, “Why don't you look at some of the root issues?” I think funding is one of the key factors in this. If you have more crimes that are being investigated, then you're going to allow it to take place. In New York City when they talk about the broken windows theory that Giuliani and others have implemented on even some of the smaller crimes, it's amazing how the crime rate dropped. Maybe we could start implementing that on some of the lesser issues. But get empirical, measure the dollars that are actually spent instead of just asking, “Are you committed to making this work?”