Comment 104178

By Borrelli (registered) | Posted August 27, 2014 at 13:08:22 in reply to Comment 104177

If you read that statement carefully, it says what it says--call it editorial prerogative. You could frame the statement any number of ways, but it doesn't change the fact that a) aboriginal women are murdered at a much higher rate than women as a whole, and b) more Aboriginal women were murdered in 2012 than in 1980.

I can't really understand why anyone would choose to frame these observations in per capita terms, save to try to minimize or obscure this shameful state of affairs. If you thoughtfully unpacked per capita rates, it only underlines how much of a sociological problem this is: while the number of female murder victims in Canada has dropped per capita, the much smaller per capita reduction for Aboriginal women can be almost entirely explained by population growth, not a reduction in violence.

So per capita #s are misleading because violence against aboriginal women is still increasing while it is declining for women as a whole. Something is going on here, and it's not just a criminal issue.

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