OTTAWA — Homeless Indigenous women in the North do not feel well-protected by the RCMP and instead face violence and discrimination by police, a new report from the Yellowknife Women's Society has found.
OTTAWA — Homeless Indigenous women in the North do not feel well-protected by the RCMP and instead face violence and discrimination by police, a new report from the Yellowknife Women's Society has found.
"Women also told us about calling for help and having the RCMP focus on 'the wrong thing' — asking women aggressive questions, spending time on administrative checkboxes despite urgency, or even arresting women who had sought their assistance." Renee Sanderson, the executive director of the Yellowknife Women's Society, said these experiences along with a broad distrust of the RCMP have real-world consequences.
"I soon realized that you have two choices: you either become a part of this tight-knit group and look the other way when injustices happen, or speak out about it and be ostracized," she wrote. Between 2018 and 2023, there were 63 allegations of inappropriate use of force by the division that operates in Yellowknife, the report says."The Indigenous women in our sharing circles were clear: despite the hundreds if not thousands of recommendations from all orders of government across the country, the relationship between unhoused Indigenous women in Yellowknife and the RCMP is not working.
Indigenous Peoples account for around 90 per cent of the homeless population in the city, despite representing about a quarter of Yellowknife's population.
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