| When police become Prey: The Cold, Hard Facts of Neil Stonechild's Freezing Death Contributor(s): McLean, Candis (Author) |
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ISBN: 0969310838 ISBN-13: 9780969310839 Publisher: Hummingbird Press OUR PRICE: $25.60 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2016 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Corruption & Misconduct - Political Science | Law Enforcement - History | Canada - Post-confederation (1867-) |
| Dewey: 363.3 |
| Physical Information: 0.82" H x 6" W x 9" (1.18 lbs) 402 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Canadian - Chronological Period - 1990's - Geographic Orientation - Saskatchewan - Locality - Saskatoon, Saskatchewan |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Two officers described as 'God's gift to the Native community' were never tried in a court of law, yet implicated through a public inquiry in a decade-old Aboriginal freezing death, and fired. All this during a time of great confusion, beneath an emotional cloud of alleged racism. The cold, hard fact is: now the dust has settled, not a single Saskatoon police officer was ever found involved in a single freezing death. Citizens are asking: 'If, the justice system can assign blame to two reputable officers without any real evidence - how safe are we? |