We are finally talking about this now eh? I lost a cousin over 12 years ago, vanished into thin air. Nobody cared. Especially the RCMP. Much like all these guys. A few posters and a lazy facebook post was all my beloved cousin ever got.
My favourite part of the article is this:
National statistics reflect a severe and often overlooked reality regarding violence against Indigenous men:
Between 1980 and 2012, Statistics Canada documented 1,750 Indigenous male homicide victims, compared to 745 Indigenous female homicide victims.
In this timeframe, 71% of all murdered and missing Indigenous people were men and boys.
According to 2020 Statistics Canada data, Indigenous men are seven times more likely to die by homicide than non-Indigenous people, and four times more likely than Indigenous women.
We hear so much about missing indigenous women. I had no idea the stat for men was 4 times higher. Why doesn’t anyone care?
There is almost certainly an active serial killer operating on the mid island for years now, and I hear random people saying this more and more. Sadly we are on our own over here it seems.
There was a serial killer in Ontario, Bruce MacArthur that was planting the remains in gardens he landscaped. He disappeared 8 south asian and middle eastern men from the gay village. I remember seeing the posters on stores in the area when I lived in the area.
If the group being taken isn’t high society then the cops won’t care. Prostitutes in Vancouver, middle eastern gays in Toronto, or poor people in Victoria. They don’t matter to the police so there isn’t a priority.
It kind of makes sense, most people have a routine, people they live with that depend on them. I wonder if homeless people just wander the streets, get high in different areas, are gone for days. Maybe the police have no means to solve something like that, and I’d be curious what their budgets are.