Vancouver Police claim all missing person cases treated the same.

[JLM]

Listening to C.B.C. one parent of missing women was told by the police all missing people cases treated the same. Yeah right, how many amber alerts went out for reported missing women. Pickton was reported to the police three years before they started investigating him!

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

Listening to C.B.C. one parent of missing women was told by the police all missing people cases treated the same. Yeah right, how many amber alerts went out for reported missing women. Pickton was reported to the police three years before they started investigating him!

Amber alerts are for kids.

 

[JLM]

Amber alerts are for kids.

OK, several years ago a girl reported her Chinese boy friend was kidnapped. Cops were on that immediately. Happily that came to a good ending with the perpetrators now serving very lengthy sentences! Perhaps if the Pickton cases were taken as seriously there may be fewer sad endings today!

 

[Mowich]

Listening to C.B.C. one parent of missing women was told by the police all missing people cases treated the same. Yeah right, how many amber alerts went out for reported missing women. Pickton was reported to the police three years before they started investigating him!

I imagine there are a lot of people who are 'reported' to the police, JLM............doesn't mean they have the time or resources to check out every single one of them. I still don't believe that Pickton acted alone in his crimes..........way too many other nefarious individuals had open access to that property and from the tapes I heard that Pickton made, he seems to be more than half a bubble off plumb.

 

[JLM]

I imagine there are a lot of people who are 'reported' to the police, JLM............doesn't mean they have the time or resources to check out every single one of them. I still don't believe that Pickton acted alone in his crimes..........way too many other nefarious individuals had open access to that property and from the tapes I heard that Pickton made, he seems to be more than half a bubble off plumb.

That wouldn't surprise me- for sure people had an inkling of what was going on while keeping one eye closed!

 

[IdRatherBeSkiing]

OK, several years ago a girl reported her Chinese boy friend was kidnapped. Cops were on that immediately. Happily that came to a good ending with the perpetrators now serving very lengthy sentences! Perhaps if the Pickton cases were taken as seriously there may be fewer sad endings today!

I am thinking that perhaps the speed at which the report came in may have been a factor too? I suspect the girl's report was within the first 24 hours if not sooner. The trail would be hot.

With Pickton's victims, how long did it take someone to report them missing? Also, were there any witnesses available that would talk to the cops?

Pickton chose his victims knowing that he would have a huge amount of time before they were missed and any witnesses would not speak to the cops.

The solution to this of course is legalized prostitution so there would be no hiding in alleys. I suspect that a serial killer would have a harder time preying on legal workers than illegal ones.

 

[karrie]

OK, several years ago a girl reported her Chinese boy friend was kidnapped. Cops were on that immediately. Happily that came to a good ending with the perpetrators now serving very lengthy sentences! Perhaps if the Pickton cases were taken as seriously there may be fewer sad endings today!

To be fair to the police, there is a difference between 'my boyfriend has been kidnapped', and 'I can't find or contact my drug abusing prostitute family member and suspect something bad has happened'. The field of suspects, known travel routes, current addresses, what they were wearing, what they were driving... if people could tell the police all that in the case of a missing prostitute, they'd come home just as quickly. The problem is that people can't. They've often let themselves slide off the radar until they're untraceable.