Why The Disinterest?
The Missing Women's Commission, led by Wally Oppal, former Attorney General of British Columbia, has a distinct purpose. Which is to conduct an enquiry to attempt to understand how and why police forces combined their energies and expertise in the case of countless women missing from Vancouver's Downtown Eastside to no avail.
Evidence so far disclosed indicates that the Vancouver Police Department and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police simply did not interact intelligently, nor did the elite of each take the issue of missing women seriously. That when the evidence was placed squarely before them they casually waved it off.
And when those officers in both police departments were tasked to take charge of the investigation that was eventually launched, were persuaded that they were looking at a serial murderer and they might know his identity, they were ignored and re-assigned. Left to deal with their concerns and their daunted consciences.
The really big question is why did no one in authority really seem to care? Why was it that those with the authority to move the case forward, to seriously launch a conclusive investigation to validate or not, the theories based in more than sufficient evidence of those who were assigned to the file, not proceed?
Mr. Oppal has his work cut out for him. But one might think it has been made infinitely simpler by the fact that the lead investigators for both the Vancouver Police Department and the RCMP experienced similar situations; each was convinced that Willy Pickton, a local pig farmer, was involved in the women's disappearances, that they had verbal identification from concerned people and that past records corroborated the man's likely involvement.
And each had experienced the oblivion and rejection of their superiors who seemingly were completely disinterested in authorizing them to continue their investigation with a view to bringing in more evidence of a nature that could not possibly be disputed. The lawyer for the families of 23 of the missing women is discontent with the lack of thoroughness of the enquiry to date.
It is his contention that the people who had contacted the investigators with information about Willy Pickton should be interviewed. That Willy Pickton's brother David, who lived on the farm while the murders were ongoing, while his brother was busy butchering women, grinding their bodies in a meat grinder, and burying parts of them on the property, should also be interviewed.
Although there has not yet been an official ruling as to whether these people will be called to the enquiry to testify, an informed source claims that the request will be denied. This convicted murderer, who exhibits not the merest shred of conscience for his bestial slaughter of innocent women has, in fact, proudly boasted the murder of 49 women.
He was convicted on six counts of second-degree murder, but he was originally charged with the murder of 26 women. The charges relating to the other 20 women were stayed when he was sentenced to life in prison. Horribly mutilating women, crushing their lives, meant little to this man. And we are sustaining his life, ensuring he will be well looked after in his life in prison.
He was allowed to continue committing his grisly murders when investigators were in possession of more than enough incriminating evidence to launch an in-depth investigation which would have speedily revealed the extent of his dreadful involvement in the disappearance of all those women. And although the depth and the level of the failure of the law's protection agencies is evident, we are still evading the truth in failing to assign responsibility for the failure where it is due.
Why haven't the heads of those departments, those to whom the leading investigators who were unable to convince their superiors with their leads and their suspicions and their urgings to become more deeply involved to conclude the case, and save the lives of other vulnerable women been charged with dereliction of duty?
Evidence so far disclosed indicates that the Vancouver Police Department and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police simply did not interact intelligently, nor did the elite of each take the issue of missing women seriously. That when the evidence was placed squarely before them they casually waved it off.
And when those officers in both police departments were tasked to take charge of the investigation that was eventually launched, were persuaded that they were looking at a serial murderer and they might know his identity, they were ignored and re-assigned. Left to deal with their concerns and their daunted consciences.
The really big question is why did no one in authority really seem to care? Why was it that those with the authority to move the case forward, to seriously launch a conclusive investigation to validate or not, the theories based in more than sufficient evidence of those who were assigned to the file, not proceed?
Mr. Oppal has his work cut out for him. But one might think it has been made infinitely simpler by the fact that the lead investigators for both the Vancouver Police Department and the RCMP experienced similar situations; each was convinced that Willy Pickton, a local pig farmer, was involved in the women's disappearances, that they had verbal identification from concerned people and that past records corroborated the man's likely involvement.
And each had experienced the oblivion and rejection of their superiors who seemingly were completely disinterested in authorizing them to continue their investigation with a view to bringing in more evidence of a nature that could not possibly be disputed. The lawyer for the families of 23 of the missing women is discontent with the lack of thoroughness of the enquiry to date.
It is his contention that the people who had contacted the investigators with information about Willy Pickton should be interviewed. That Willy Pickton's brother David, who lived on the farm while the murders were ongoing, while his brother was busy butchering women, grinding their bodies in a meat grinder, and burying parts of them on the property, should also be interviewed.
Although there has not yet been an official ruling as to whether these people will be called to the enquiry to testify, an informed source claims that the request will be denied. This convicted murderer, who exhibits not the merest shred of conscience for his bestial slaughter of innocent women has, in fact, proudly boasted the murder of 49 women.
He was convicted on six counts of second-degree murder, but he was originally charged with the murder of 26 women. The charges relating to the other 20 women were stayed when he was sentenced to life in prison. Horribly mutilating women, crushing their lives, meant little to this man. And we are sustaining his life, ensuring he will be well looked after in his life in prison.
He was allowed to continue committing his grisly murders when investigators were in possession of more than enough incriminating evidence to launch an in-depth investigation which would have speedily revealed the extent of his dreadful involvement in the disappearance of all those women. And although the depth and the level of the failure of the law's protection agencies is evident, we are still evading the truth in failing to assign responsibility for the failure where it is due.
Why haven't the heads of those departments, those to whom the leading investigators who were unable to convince their superiors with their leads and their suspicions and their urgings to become more deeply involved to conclude the case, and save the lives of other vulnerable women been charged with dereliction of duty?
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