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.
Followed highway of tears stories my entire adult life. Never heard of indigenous men going missing even once.
Call me a conspirator all you want but human trafficking is rampant in BC. It’s not just sex related. Young men are probably being kidnapped and forced into labour or harvested for organs. There is plenty of wilderness here to misbehave. Just go 10km out of town and you are in the sticks. It’s almost impossible to find someone who went missing for nefarious reasons here.
Talking about island specific, think about the population here:
Drunk tourists
People moving here alone because they are depressed and running from their issues
Transient workers from abroad
It’s ripe for this sort of crime and people think it’s way safer here than it actually is.
The rcmp just say all these men killed themselves but I know my cousin and he did not kill himself. He vanished into thin air.
https://www.edmontonpolice.ca/CrimeFiles/MissingPersons/2010to2019/JasonBEAUPIT
Dude wasn’t even last spotted over there. Numerous reports of him being last seen in Duncan. This is how much the rcmp cared.
“Probably being harvested for organs” okay, guy. Sure. Just slipping that in there made you lose all credibility.
Also your region isn’t any more prone to violent crime than other places because of “tourists” or “single people.” Those are normal city things.
I think your personal experience has turned your brain into mush.
The rcmp human trafficking website cites that as a reason people go missing
Missing people per capita is higher in BC than anywhere else in Canada. By quite a bit too