Certainly, because as it's written now, we're only dealing with cockfighting. In my personal experience, it has been cockfighting, so it has been helpful.
However, for my colleagues in other jurisdictions that are dealing with dogfighting, the difficulty becomes one of gathering evidence that supports the fact that dogfighting is occurring. What we often hear is, “It was two dogs playing, and we were just watching what was going on.”
We know that, when we're searching for evidence, we actually have set information that we're looking for. Whether that be anything from panels that are two feet by four feet or four feet by eight feet to the utilization of a number of doors that may be in a back room that can be set up to develop a pit or a ring, that is what we're looking for. It's anything that we can use with respect to an arena. Then we can start looking for the things that would generally be found when we're looking for an arena. We would be looking for things like scratch marks on the floor, carpeting, the panels that would set up the outside walls, and whether or not there are any stands.
In the cockpit that I had investigated in 1988, we found that it was definitely an arena environment. There was a pit, and all around the outside were areas where people could stand and bet on the outcomes of the fights.
Absolutely, I would support that we need to have the arena in there.