The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Feminist Policy Reform, and the Crisis of Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls in Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
Abstract Addressing the crisis of missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls (MMIWG) was a cornerstone for Canada’s first self-declared feminist government, elected in 2015. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) is Canada’s national police force, tasked with responding to MMIWG and criticized for colonial practices contributing to the crisis. Given the promise of the government’s feminist commitments, this paper investigates whether the RCMP’s policy approach to MMIWG has changed since 2015. This paper critically analyzes RCMP and federal MMIWG policies before and after the 2015 election, revealing both change and continuity. The most profound change is the acknowledgment that the RCMP is part of the problem. The feminist government and Indigenous activism created space for this change. However, the policy continuity reflects what Kristin Bumiller calls “expressive justice”—a policy response that legitimizes state action by repositioning the RCMP as redeemable and trustworthy, revealing the limits of state-compatible feminisms.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.003 | 0.007 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.002 | 0.002 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.038 | 0.015 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.009 | 0.002 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Research integrity | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.007 | 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 source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), 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".