Yes, I agree with that, and I agree with the minister as well; I don't think any police officer that I represent would disagree with the notion that we have to get at the underlying issues and try to get people out of situations where they're engaged in criminal activity. But in the short term, that's exactly what we have to do: we have to find a way to protect citizens from being victimized time and time again by individuals who are involved in organized crime or those serious chronic offenders who are committing crime after crime after crime.
On November 1st, 2011. See this statement in context.