If you'll recall, what the SPCA officer said was that this is true, that it's one-quarter of 1% of animal abuse complaints that result in a conviction. If he had effective legislation, he thought he could probably get convictions in somewhere in the order of magnitude of about 300 to 400 cases out of 1,000, whereas right now it's infinitesimally smaller than that.
On February 14th, 2008. See this statement in context.