Six Nations Police on the frontline

Six Nation’s Police annual report has hit the streets and with it comes, not an unexpected result, but a frightening one. Crime is not just on the increase, but violent crime is. First Nation communities are no stranger to violent crime. Statistics have shown us that. We know Indigenous people, in particular women, are more likely to be victims of crime . And for the first time the horror of a mass murder entered a First Nations community with the greatest single loss of life on September 4, 2022, when Myles Sanderson killed 11 and injured 18 people in a mass stabbing at 13 locations on the James Smith Cree Nation and in Weldon, Saskatchewan, Canada. A loss that has affected communities nation wide spurring leaders to revisit their own…

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