Thank you very much for being here, Doctor.
I was just doing some word association as you were giving your evidence, because I find that helps hone down who we are dealing with here. For dealing with the organized criminal, I wrote down some word association. You can comment, vis-à-vis the average person in jail. Then we'll go on to a discussion of that, because some of us belong to public safety and we're engaged in a study of our prisons.
One of the first things, of course, when you deal with organized crime has to do with control. On the outside they have to be people who control--especially their leaders--so I wrote down some word associations, and I'd just like you to confirm that I'm on the right path here: are intelligent, have leadership abilities, are organized--obviously--are knowledgeable, have access to money, and, in and of that, have excellent legal advice and representation. Then when we're dealing with both the crime and the punishment as well as the organization itself, the consequences of disobedience are harsh and/or terminal, especially when you deal with people like bikers.
Would some of those word associations be correct when describing the average person who comes in as part of an organized crime group?