We may not know how many aboriginal woman go missing in Canada, but it's hard enough to accept that their lifestyle is so dangerous. Where a lot of us can feel safe and secure in our lives, aboriginal woman seem to attract danger according to the first article I read. In some cases it's been brought to light that there are sad assumptions about aboriginl woman. They're sometimes seen as available objects for sex by strangers and sometimes intimate lovers. This assumption isn't followed by just the offenders, but also athourities that consider these preyed upon women as insignificant. Woman don't just fall in dangr like this because of the sex trade, these are sometimes normal woman who are abused because of their aboriginal status.
The second article I read revealed the indifference to aboriginal cases from the Vancouver Down Town East Side to me. During the case of Robert Pickton, many victims were determindly classified as missing. Tip offs that led Robert Pickton to be suspected for murdering many women from the DTES weren't investigated seriously. Even a witness who barely escaped from getting killed by Pickton, with very real evidence, wasn't considered valid because she was a drug addict from the DTES, the kind of girl that Pickton aimed for. he total incompetence and blatant disregard for these woman shocked me about the police. How cold does one have to be to completely ignore fellow humans in need of help when a killer is after your kind of profile, even when they have the manpower and athourity to change that and put a cold hearted murderer in jail? Not only did the police not do that, but they didn' even try to warn people of the DTES about the killer's type. It went on for five years under the police's very aware noses. Those women's blood is indeed on their hands.
