I guess the short answer is yes. Any effort to keep people in the community is what is going to give us better measures of public safety—restricting very closely those who need to stay in and letting others out, providing the kind of supervision and support that people may need. Nonetheless I think we also need to be somewhat concerned about how some individuals may be oversurveilled or overconditioned in the community. We may be setting people up to fail, leading them to come back into the system.
Again, if we can restrict ourselves from bringing in so many minor matters, it will allow us to best focus on that which is more serious and to monitor those folks in an effective manner.