RCMP inaction after the Mission, B.C. hit and run shows police are failing Indigenous people once again
But we do know what seems to have motivated the police, and their shameful response – study after study has shown what it was. And that is an institutionally entrenched indifference to Indigenous victims of crime.
The National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls noted several studies into police inaction when the victim was an Indigenous woman, as didinto the deaths of seven First Nations youth in Thunder Bay. Time and again, it has been found that police are slow to investigate crimes where the victim is Indigenous.
Most children died from disease caused by neglect. That neglect was a symptom of a system that gave them fourth-rate funding, and services and facilities – and it was a product of Canadian leadership, and a Canadian public that didn’t care that this equality gap was leading to so much suffering.
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