Thank you.
I have two areas I'd like to get to and I'll probably only get to one.
Superintendent Davis, I was grateful to receive your remarks. In particular, you made some comments along the line that criminal organizations, in addition to outsourcing, apply the latest advances in technology and consider law enforcement response, as well as potential legal sanction, in their undertakings.
Also, when discussing some of the other federal statutes, you said that legal sanctions associated with many of these other federal statutes should be refreshed in order to provide a real deterrent to current-day criminal organizations. It sounded to me that you were suggesting that in fact heavier sentences can act as a deterrent and can hinder criminal organizations and increase the cost of doing business for these groups. Yet we sometimes hear from academics and others who say that in fact sentences don't act as an effective deterrent.
I would just like to hear a little more from you on that point. If you told us how long you've been involved in this work or what opportunity you've had to observe the effect of deterrent sentences upon organized crime or criminals generally, I'm afraid I didn't catch it. I would like to know a little bit about how you reached the conclusion that sentences can deter, hinder, and make the cost of doing business greater for organized crime.