During cross examination on whether women from the Downtown Eastside were treated differently than others who might have gone missing, Deputy Chief Doug LePard of the Vancouver Police Department confirmed that he had been told that another top cop, Deputy Chief John Unger, had referred to the missing women as “just hookers.”
“I agree it is not an appropriate comment. … I thought that it was a terrible remark to make,” he said.
Deputy Chief Unger, who served in that role from April 1, 2000, to Dec. 31, 2002, had wanted to characterize the women as missing, not murdered, Deputy Chief LePard also said. But Deputy Chief LePard dismissed the suggestion that the characterization reflected a dismissive attitude to the women. “It was clear to me that [Deputy Chief] Unger wanted them to be truly missing. He did not want to believe they were murdered,” Deputy Chief LePard said.
Globe and Mail
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