Yes.
I noticed one of your publications, entitled “Mandatory Minimum Sentences: Law and Policy”. I did have an opportunity to read it, and it was an interesting read, for sure. I noticed that you referred to many things within the footnotes, in particular, in 1952, a royal commission on the revision of the Criminal Code, a 1952 Senate official report of debates, a 1987 Canadian Sentencing Commission, and it goes on. In fact, in your footnote 28--and I quote--it states:
“'Three Strikes and You're Out': The Impact of California's New Mandatory Sentencing Law on Serious Crime Rates” (1997)”.... In one of the ten California locations the decrease in index crime coincided with the implementation of the three-strikes law. There seems to be no reasonable explanation for the difference between this county (Anaheim) and the other ten.
You then go on further to say—and I think it must be a joke—“There was no suggestion that it was related to the fact that Disneyland is located in Anaheim.”
I went through the footnotes and could not find anything to support your position on this particular paper. I was wondering if there was something more than the footnotes that I may be directed to in regard to your expertise in this particular matter and “The Political Attractiveness of Mandatory Minimum Sentences”, in which, in conclusion, you indicated that “it is clear that the policy process must take into account the various functions”--