RCMP dossier: "Complexion: Other"

From lisamarieyoung.ca

Summary

Details Matter!
While individual issues may seem trivial on their own, together, they are demonstrative of the overall carelessness and apathy with which the investigation was handled.
→ See the overview of RCMP dossier inaccuracies.

RCMP investigators recently updated the official dossier for Lisa's case to describe her complexion as "other". Why waste time on an unhelpful detail like this, rather than correcting some of the many mistakes on the dossier?

Details

clip from the official RCMP dossier for Lisa Marie Young
Clipping from RCMP Dossier for Lisa Marie Young (Dec 2022)[1]
official RCMP dossier for Lisa Marie Young (thumbnail).
Official RCMP Dossier: Lisa Marie Young[2]
Dossier "Complexion"
up to 2019 "Dark"[3]
2019 to 2023 "Other"[4][1]

These are both wrong.

  • Lisa was ½ Indigenous and ½ Caucasian.[5] She's been referred to as "fair-skinned".
  • Nobody has a complexion of "Other". This change was made by request of a family member who was unsatisfied with the term "Dark", but why would investigators not remove the "Complexion" field altogether, or find an option better than "Other"?


See also

Sources

  1. 1.0 1.1 Govt of Canada, RCMP (Dec 20, 2022),"Official Dossier: Lisa Marie Young"ARCHIVE.ORG DEC 2022
  2. RCMP, Government of Canada, "Official Dossier: Lisa Marie Young"
  3. Govt of Canada, RCMP (Jun 26, 2019),"Official Dossier: Lisa Marie Young"ARCHIVE.ORG JUN 2019
  4. Govt of Canada, RCMP (Aug 13, 2021),"Official Dossier: Lisa Marie Young"ARCHIVE.ORG AUG 2021
  5. Eric Plummer, Ha-Shilth-Sa (Sep 11, 2017), Remembering missing and murdered Nuu-chah-nulth women and girls (source)