To survive, Indigenous police forces need 'black belts in how to be lean'

By Luc Rinaldi

In her 18 years as a police officer, Det. Sgt. Alana Morrison has worked some of the Nishnawbe Aski Police Service’s darkest files: homicide, domestic violence, child sexual abuse. She has interviewed more than a thousand victims — many of them more than once. “We’d bring them in one door, interview them, collect our evidence and then shove them out the back door with no support,” says Morrison. “Every time, my brain said, ‘This isn’t right.’” Read More