The Reaction Of A Few

In the story “Just Another Indian” a huge piece topic that was and still is discussed was the lack of involvement from police, and media in regards to the murders. In involvement to this lack of service many individuals believed that the race of the ladies who were murdered and raped by John Crawford played a part in the media's coverage and police involvement. Many claims have been made that the race of the First Nation ladies stories we're not seem as important in the eyes of those who could have helped solve or let others know that a murderer was loose in Saskatoon, Saskatchewan. Many of the losts family member’s believe that of the ladies who suffered at John’s hands maybe could have had their lives spared if they had been informed of the killings of other First Nations woman. In one case in the book the Saskatoon police couldn’t keep surveillance all night on John Crawford as their was more pressing cases to be taken care of. In the time that the police had left John Crawford at home with his mother another First Nations woman had met an untimely demise. It is believed that the murder would have been prevented if even one policeman had stayed behind and watched John to insure in the time the police left John that no other lady would suffer by his hand. Another case occurred when the police were following John and allowed a First Nations woman to get into John Crawford’s mother's car. The police had John as a suspect for the cases of murdering the First Nations woman, but still let another woman go with him which resulted in a rape and severe beating.

If an issue of race was a problem for the police involved in the case they should have taken themselves away from the case and let those who had no biases help solve the crimes of those murdered.