Public Safety Canada has undertaken some studies in this area. A lot of the increase in the police costs are associated with the fact, as I indicated, that the system has become the default for failures of other parts of the social system. Police officers are spending a significant amount of their time dealing with people who have mental health problems, or other types of problems.
If a police officer takes a person to the hospital because of a suspected mental health issue, that police officer may be there for a couple hours while they're waiting. That's a significant amount of time, which becomes a police cost. It's not a traditional policing cost in terms of investigation. It's essentially being a social worker. The police will say that a lot of their increased costs are because they are becoming more and more social workers as opposed to law enforcement officers.
Correctional costs would make sense if there were more people going to penitentiaries and jails and staying there longer. Then, of course, the correctional costs would go up. Costs of the system, if trials take longer, would indicate the greater costs for prosecutors, judges, etc., because their time is being eaten away with respect to lengthy processing as opposed to moving people through the system more quickly.