Absolutely, I do. This is one of the biggest problems we face when it comes to the custody rating scale, as I mentioned in my opening statement. When the decision is made to ignore the empirical data—and I say “empirical” with quotation marks—in using that custody rating scale, and to override inmates who would normally be in a maximum- or a medium-security institution to go to a lower level of security, that overriding could have potential consequences for the public, just as it did in this case.
I know that in the case of Mr. Bernardo he was overridden, but overridden to stay in a maximum-security institution. You typically don't have a whole lot of problems when they're keeping somebody at a higher level, but when the transfer is being made to a lower level, this is where we have problems. If you ask the right questions, you'll see that there are many inmates across the country who are in a lower level than what they are classified as in the custody rating scale.