Families hope trauma-informed policing becomes the rule, rather than the exception, in MMIWG cases

It was nearly a decade ago that Sue Caribou’s family gathered at a landfill in Winnipeg as police began to search for the remains of her missing niece Tanya Nepinak.

“They said they would clean a spot for us where we can see them searching. But instead, when I got there, I got chased away. We didn’t get to watch like they promised us. They broke a lot of promises,” Caribou said.

It was October 2012, and Caribou says Winnipeg police told her family they would comb through the dump looking for Nepinak’s remains for one month. But the search was called off a little