CRM 202 Lecture 4: Week 4 (Feb 7) - The Pickton Murders.docx
28 Nov 2013
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Large numbers of women reported missing from the downtown east side in vancouver. Socioeconomic status of that neighborhood - poorest postal code in canada. Disproportionate numbers of sex-trade workers and drug users. Over and under policing [under policing in the terms of not enough police protection like we would expect here in toronto; under policing in the fact that the neighborhood was poor, and are over-policed] Nature and types of other social services. Expectations of the lives of women living and/or working in the des [ when you live this kind of life, you should expect the violence and the drug use that comes with it ] Police didn"t take action on reports of missing women for many years. Early on, pickton was charged with one count of attempted murder against a sex trade worker who also had a drug problem. The charges were dropped because the crown did not believed it could get a conviction based on her testimony.
