The bail regime currently in this country is not protecting victims. It's actually producing more victims. We would really like to see the sex offender list be public. I think that makes a lot of sense.
We would really like the government to understand the psychology of abusers. I think that's where we need to base laws. These are not normal individuals. These are dark triad, Machiavellian, psychopathic, anti-social and narcissistic personality disorders, chemical imbalances that produce the recidivism rates of these crimes that we see so often. It is not a majority of the population. It's a small subset of the population that keeps getting away with it.
We need to understand that if someone is charged with strangulation, they are going to do it again. That needs to be the assumption. I know it's innocent until proven guilty, but right now it's innocent until she's dead. We really need to understand that, particularly around sexual assault and intimate partner violence, the recidivism rate is so high that one charge should mean jail, that's it.
We need jails to be better. We need people to get better in jail, because when they get out after being in jail, they generally are worse. My organization has been working very closely with the Ford government—we have made an ally there—on dealing with these issues and how we can train the judges better, how we can train and provide the tools within the jail so that we can rehabilitate some people.
However, I'll be honest with you. There are some criminals that cannot be rehabilitated, and we just have to deal with that and throw away the key.