RCMP To Look into Missing, Murdered Aboriginal Women Pending Cases

This article was last updated on April 16, 2022

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The timing of an important announcement by RCMP coincides with the release of findings of a long-awaited report, which claims aboriginal women are significantly overrepresented as victims of homicide and in missing-persons cases. The RCMP has ordered all its divisions in Canada to review their unsolved cases of missing and murdered aboriginal women in order to look for new and unexplored leads, and report back within six months on their progress.

According to the alarming report, although aboriginal women are a four per cent of the population, they represent 16 per cent of all murdered females between 1980 and 2012 and 11 per cent of all missing females. Whereas, Deputy Commissioner Janice Armstrong mentioned in a press conference in Winnipeg that “we remain committed to resolving all outstanding cases and seeking justice for families and friends of aboriginal women who have disappeared or who have been murdered.” She alleged that “we remain committed to reducing the violence against aboriginal women.” However, it was highlighted that “when files are many years old there’s a tendency to lose contact.”

RCMP director of aboriginal policing, Supt. Tyler Bates, alleged that more money is planned to be spent on prevention that is needed to address “vulnerability factors,” such as unemployment and substance abuse. He explained that “it’s by no means, on our part, to accord any type of blame to the victim with respect to discussing these vulnerability factors, but the reality is that there are difficult social and economic circumstances that need to be considered.”