Dismantle the Media

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.

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    2 days ago

    If the group being taken isn’t high society then the cops won’t care.

    That’s a disingenuous way to present the following information:

    • mispers cases are hard. They’re often dry failures after a big slog.
    • the lack of progress isn’t reported in media unless it’s about someone famous or rich
    • there’s absolutely nothing the extra reporting does except inject some seagull management in the mix
    • spend too long on a case where there may not even be a crime, and you have a talk about priorities in this continuing budget crisis.

    So when you want to say “they’re often hard thankless long-shot cases and there’s not a lot of positive news and often not even a charge,” you chose to say instead “they don’t care if you’re not rich.”

    And that’s disappointing.