Vancouver Police & RCMP Failed Victims of Serial Killer
The police of Vancouver and BC overall are fine intelligent folk, who do a fine job. That just makes it all the more baffling how they could be so shockingly incompetent in dealing with circumstances in which a serial killer was plucking sex workers off the street, and, it was later discovered, carving them up and feeding their carcasses to pigs.
British Columbia law enforcement didn't merely fail to investigate the disappearances, they took a long time to even face up the the reality that it was happening, and actually obstructed proper investigation of it. Why? To begin, they obviously didn't value the lives of street prostitutes as much as, say, the wealthy residents of West Vancouver, so took ages to even take it seriously and begin looking into it. Who were these murdered women who were essentially regarded as garbage by Canada's police? WWW.MISSINGPEOPLE.NET
Also, it seems egos, power struggles and jurisdiction arguments between Vancouver police department and RCMP was a major impediment to a proper investigation.
BC police even drove away, D. Kim Rossmo, one of their own who soon recognized that a serial killer was on the loose in Vancouver, but law enforcement decision-makers thought otherwise. He is a law enforcement software developer who created a brilliant geographic profiling program with an algorithm to pinpoint the likely locations of serial killers. US law enforcement enthusiastically hired him afterwards.
Kim Rossmo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
British Columbia law enforcement didn't merely fail to investigate the disappearances, they took a long time to even face up the the reality that it was happening, and actually obstructed proper investigation of it. Why? To begin, they obviously didn't value the lives of street prostitutes as much as, say, the wealthy residents of West Vancouver, so took ages to even take it seriously and begin looking into it. Who were these murdered women who were essentially regarded as garbage by Canada's police? WWW.MISSINGPEOPLE.NET
Also, it seems egos, power struggles and jurisdiction arguments between Vancouver police department and RCMP was a major impediment to a proper investigation.
BC police even drove away, D. Kim Rossmo, one of their own who soon recognized that a serial killer was on the loose in Vancouver, but law enforcement decision-makers thought otherwise. He is a law enforcement software developer who created a brilliant geographic profiling program with an algorithm to pinpoint the likely locations of serial killers. US law enforcement enthusiastically hired him afterwards.
Kim Rossmo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
|
Kim Rossmo From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia D. Kim Rossmo is a Canadian criminologist specializing in geographic profiling. He joined the Vancouver Police Department as a civilian employee in 1978 and became a sworn officer in 1980. In 1987 he received a Master's degree in criminology from Simon Fraser University and in 1995 became the first police officer in Canada to obtain a doctorate in criminology.[1] His dissertation research resulted in a new criminal investigative methodology called geographic profiling, based on Rossmo's formula. In 1995, he was promoted to detective inspector and founded a geographic profiling section within the Vancouver Police Department. In 1998, his analysis of cases of missing sex trade workers determined that a serial killer was at work, a conclusion ultimately vindicated by the arrest and conviction of Robert Pickton in 2002. A retired Vancouver police staff sergeant has claimed that animosity toward Rossmo delayed the arrest of Pickton, leaving him free to carry out additional murders. His analytic results were not accepted at the time and after a falling out with senior members of the department he left in 2001. His unsuccessful lawsuit against the Vancouver Police Board for wrongful dismissal exposed considerable apparent dysfunction within that department. After serving as director of research at the Police Foundation in Washington, DC, from 2001 to 2003, he moved to Texas State University where he currently holds the Endowed Chair in Criminology and is director of the Center for Geospatial Intelligence and Investigation.[4] Since then, he has applied techniques of geographic profiling to counterterrorism, animal foraging, and epidemiology. He has also researched and published on the subject of criminal investigative failures. He has written two books. |
Sal
When the Roads and Paths end, learn to guide yourself through the wilderness
Beyond the Path