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The two articles that I read were both about the Robert Pickton case and the Missing Women inquiry. I find the attitudes that many police officers had towards these women absolutely appalling. Just because most of these women were drug-addicted and sex-trade workers, they should not be treated as less than any other person. They are still human beings, and their lives matter too. The fact that many of these women were first-nations women, should not have mattered at all. People are people. Racism should not have played any part in this investigation, but unfortunately it did. I also find it upsetting that even though they had detailed tips from as far back as 1998, it took police until 2002 to catch Robert Pickton. I think that the police did a terrible job of handling the Pickton case, and the Missing Women inquiry is well deserved.