Razing Complacency
A 911 operator who worked for Vancouver Police when sex workers were disappearing from the Downtown Eastside says her superiors repeatedly told her they weren’t going to spend valuable time and money looking for hookers.
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Missing aboriginal women were ‘just hookers’ to police, says 911 operator

canada disgusts me

(via biyuti)

nah, this shit happens everywhere. police disgust me.

also from the article, 

“They didn’t care. It was systemic. It didn’t matter. They were marginalized women, most of them were aboriginal […] As far as I was getting from the department, I was told to ‘stop being a bleeding heart,’ and to ‘grow up, these people are scum of the Earth.’”

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