Thank you, Chair.
Normally I sit on the finance committee, Chair, and I don't think I've ever had a panel that was so of one mind in seeing this bill as irredeemably flawed, so this is a bit of an education.
I want to address my first question to Professor Doob with respect to the data and your very helpful analysis. When you look at the full amount of data on rape, robbery, burglary, and firearms, the trend lines seem to operate independently of the minimum mandatory laws. In other words, aggravated assault is actually, at this point, in 1989—I can't quite read that, maybe it's 1999--higher than it was before, whereas burglary is down, robbery rates in a number of the years are actually higher than they were before the law, and there doesn't seem to be any kind of clear trend with respect to rape, other than that it seems to be going down.
Is there any particular reason for that? Am I right in my assumption that it just simply seems to operate independently of minimum mandatories?