Failed Security, Failed Humanity
The Missing Women Commission of Inquiry is turning up evidence of prideful human stupidity by the bucketful. The competition, for example, between various police departments and those who had established an earned reputation for capable "criminal profiling", resulted in an unwillingness to take the compelling information that was given and use it usefully to solve crimes and prevent others.
It is a strange bit of human psychology that we rarely find value in anything that is of real substance if it does not come with a steep price attached. Those who generously seek to gift others with items of value find it difficult to interest takers. It seems that only things that can be obtained through an outlay of effort and/or cash have their intrinsic value recognized.
Vancouver Police Department Inspector Fred Biddlecombe "didn't believe the theory there was a serial killer", refusing to issue, as was recommended, a public warning to alert and caution the public that there was danger lurking in the mean streets of Vancouver. Danger that was wholly directed toward street walkers, drug users, the expendable of society.
According to the testimony of Vancouver Deputy Chief Doug LePard, police had detailed tips pointing to Robert Pickton as a horrible public menace, in 1998. Which happened to be the same year their geographic profiler insisted they put out a public warning of a serial killer hunting down women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Not even the "geographic profiling" that resulted from the involvement of Det. Ins. Kim Rossmo, who had already achieved an international reputation, and was at that time Canada's prominent law enforcement officer who had earned a doctorate in criminology, presented sufficient proof to satisfy Ins. Fred Biddlecombe.
So Robert Pickton was free to continue his slaughterhouse predations on women whose welfare seemed of too little concern to area law enforcement. Serving a life sentence, having been convicted of the murder of only six of his victims, where he has boasted of killing almost fifty women, he could have been apprehended long before many of these women were targeted.
An informer who knew Pickton well informed that he was in possession of women's IDs, purses and other items on his Port Coquitlam pig farm. He was convinced that Pickton was murdering women. And the information he relayed to Vancouver police corroborated other, similarly damning information that had been received by the police.
Yet, while they considered Bill Hiscox's information about his employer to be accurate, relaying that information to Burnaby RCMP, New Westminster police and Port Coquitlam RCMP, none were sufficiently concerned to issue a public warning, or to obtain a search warrant. There was no follow up. The dazzling negligence was amazing.
Only later, on an entirely different matter investigated by police did they stumble over evidence of the horrors that had been gruesomely committed on that dreadful farm leading them finally to arrest a mass murderer.
It is a strange bit of human psychology that we rarely find value in anything that is of real substance if it does not come with a steep price attached. Those who generously seek to gift others with items of value find it difficult to interest takers. It seems that only things that can be obtained through an outlay of effort and/or cash have their intrinsic value recognized.
Vancouver Police Department Inspector Fred Biddlecombe "didn't believe the theory there was a serial killer", refusing to issue, as was recommended, a public warning to alert and caution the public that there was danger lurking in the mean streets of Vancouver. Danger that was wholly directed toward street walkers, drug users, the expendable of society.
According to the testimony of Vancouver Deputy Chief Doug LePard, police had detailed tips pointing to Robert Pickton as a horrible public menace, in 1998. Which happened to be the same year their geographic profiler insisted they put out a public warning of a serial killer hunting down women in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside.
Not even the "geographic profiling" that resulted from the involvement of Det. Ins. Kim Rossmo, who had already achieved an international reputation, and was at that time Canada's prominent law enforcement officer who had earned a doctorate in criminology, presented sufficient proof to satisfy Ins. Fred Biddlecombe.
So Robert Pickton was free to continue his slaughterhouse predations on women whose welfare seemed of too little concern to area law enforcement. Serving a life sentence, having been convicted of the murder of only six of his victims, where he has boasted of killing almost fifty women, he could have been apprehended long before many of these women were targeted.
An informer who knew Pickton well informed that he was in possession of women's IDs, purses and other items on his Port Coquitlam pig farm. He was convinced that Pickton was murdering women. And the information he relayed to Vancouver police corroborated other, similarly damning information that had been received by the police.
Yet, while they considered Bill Hiscox's information about his employer to be accurate, relaying that information to Burnaby RCMP, New Westminster police and Port Coquitlam RCMP, none were sufficiently concerned to issue a public warning, or to obtain a search warrant. There was no follow up. The dazzling negligence was amazing.
Only later, on an entirely different matter investigated by police did they stumble over evidence of the horrors that had been gruesomely committed on that dreadful farm leading them finally to arrest a mass murderer.
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