We face a variety of issues. It's not something that has a single answer to it.
We bring far too many minor matters into the court system to begin with, and some of this could be resolved by encouraging the police to exercise their powers of release, to use the judicial referral hearings that, at least anecdotally, have not been used in a widespread manner.
We also have difficulties of a risk-averse mentality in court, and this is an understandable mentality, because when incidents like this happen, when police officers are killed by somebody who is allegedly out on bail at the time.... We are also deeply concerned about the violence that women experience. We are understandably concerned about what happens to victims, yet we nonetheless have to step back and think about how we best achieve safety for those individuals.
Holding more people in custody and releasing them with conditions they have no reasonable prospect of complying with are not going to enhance our public safety. We need to be mindful that we have a limited means to what we can do at the front end of the system, because we have to hold it at its centre that we presume people innocent, that people have a right to reasonable bail, and that the bail is supposed to be unconditional.