“The Obscenities of this Country”: Canada v. Bedford and the Reform of Canadian Prostitution Laws
Bibliographic record
Abstract
In February 2002, following a search for illegal weapons that turned up the belongings of several missing women, the Vancouver Police Department laid charges of first-degree murder against Robert Pickton for the deaths of Sereena Abotsway and Mona Wilson, two Aboriginal women working as street-level prostitutes in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. 3 Over the next three years, Pickton, a pig farmer from Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, would be charged with twenty-four additional murders, making his case the "largest serial killer investigation in Canadian history." 4 There is evidence, however, that Pickton may have committed even more murders -in 2002, he told an undercover officer posing as his cellmate that he "was gonna do one more, make it an even fifty," but was caught before he had the chance because he had become "sloppy." 5At trial, prosecutors demonstrated that Pickton would travel into Vancouver, offer "money and drugs" to women working on the "low track[s]" of the Downtown Eastside, and then bring them back to his pig farm, where he would torture, kill, and dismember them. 6 In the aftermath of the Pickton trial, various media outlets revealed that the Vancouver Police Department had badly mishandled investigations into the over 65 women who had gone missing in Vancouver over the past two decades.In
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".