Well, that's where you have the potential of achieving the greatest gain. If you spend your resources working with low-risk offenders, you spend a lot of money, but you don't have the opportunity for very much gain. In some research we see about 6% of low-risk offenders maybe committing a new offence after two years. For high-risk offenders, you find that number is more like 25%. We can deal with the 6% of people who will commit a new offence or we can deal with the 25% of high-risk offenders who will commit a new offence. Which ones do we want to deal with in order to impact public safety? It's those high-risk offenders.
On March 1st, 2012. See this statement in context.