In the police profession, as I'm sure you've heard, there are all kinds of competing resources and issues that come forward.
When CISO started 45 years ago, it was as a result of a royal inquiry into what everybody will understand as and call today “traditional” organized crime, which used very specific methodologies. If violence was used, for example, it would be strategic violence as opposed to impulsive violence.
What's occurring today, in my view, when I look at the greater Toronto area and the prevalence of street gangs—and I'll let my Toronto friend counteract what I say if he wishes to—is that the violence is sometimes strategic and often it's impulsive. Then you have retribution after that, and it follows back and forth.
Our focus in law enforcement is on the street-level violence that is occurring in Canada or other major crimes that are occurring.
I forgot to mention earlier that I am a superintendent with the OPP. In my previous job, I was responsible for the OPP anti-rackets branch and major crime, crimes against the government, and we set up a corruption investigation unit.
There is lots and lots of work to be done, lots of investigations to be done, even just for transparency's sake alone if people make allegations. The problem is maintaining the resources dedicated to those investigations when all the other competing resources are happening in major crime.
In the OPP's context, responding to province-wide requests for assistance in homicides, some very famous ones that have occurred in the last few months in outlying communities in Ontario that are not OPP jurisdiction but the OPP has funded and supported those investigators, those investigators came from the corruption and anti-racket side of the house. A number of them came from there.
So it's a constant juggling act where we deal with the organized crime that we can deal with, when we have the time for it. I don't think we really have as good a look at the potential for corruption that has occurred over time in the government.