One of the things that's so difficult about the conversation is that every one of those criminal operations or enterprises brings in quite different factors. I'm not certain that you can say today that drugs are the big money-maker. Possibly they are the priority money-maker for some Mafia operations. But again, while I was looking at the situation of trafficking in humans, some of the criminal operations seem to be deciding that is a less risky and highly profitable enterprise to get into.
Basically any industry that has a possibility to make a profit is going to have a criminal and possibly a corruption sideline to it as well.
In regard to some of the kinds of criminal activity that you talked about in terms of unions or construction, in terms of looking at what they're doing in the United States, I think we can maybe learn some things there. We certainly tried to learn from the RICO. But what they're doing in some of those industries is what they call IPSIGs. In order to keep the operation going--like the business or the corporation or whatever--they make the people pay for trusteeships, auditors, and all the rest of it. What this emphasizes is that we have to assume that in any money-making operation there is the possibility that criminals are working. In fact, some criminals will be operating in those industries.
One point I'd like to make is that we are speaking on the assumption that crime is increasing. Every time one has these hearings--I think every year--we talk about crime increasing. Certainly the statistics are not increasing, and I'm not meaning to downplay organized crime or the dangers or the amount of money or anything, but I don't know that we have the evidence that it is increasing.
Thank you very much.