Thank you very much.
I want to thank the witnesses today. There has been a great deal of very, very helpful evidence, in my opinion.
I'm going to start by asking Chief Hanson about his statement because I thought it was one that made a great deal of sense and really is the hallmark of what I've heard today: that is. that organized crime is motivated by profit, not by stupidity or substance abuse.
What I take from that and from some of your comments afterward, Chief Hanson, is that if this is the case, then there is a role for sentences that will deter people, sentences that will in fact outweigh the profit to be made in the business of organized crime.
So I'm looking at that as a statement to say that maybe there is a place for deterrence in those kinds of crimes. Is that a correct interpretation?