Ms. Power, you mentioned that stiffer penalties might be an option. I spent an afternoon one time with a good box of wine talking to a criminal defence lawyer whose major clientele were drug people. He said they just considered whatever the penalty was a cost of doing business. The sweat soldiers would do some time, and they'd move up the ladder and eventually they wouldn't be doing it anymore. They'd have other people doing it.
I'm wondering, since they did not consider penalties to be a major factor in whether or not they did the crime, whether there's any correlation between the stiffness of sentences and the reduction of crime.