My experience of the system in Vancouver is it isn't so much racist as just broken, the native population is heavily policed, they get picked up for minor infractions that most of us would be let off on, they get a charge, plead guilty get a minor fine or probation and are cut loose, the fact they have a record now means that in the future they will always be charged as that tends to be how the police work, it just becomes an endless revolving door that keeps natives in the Criminal Justice system for the most petty of crimes generally, of course that makes finding work impossible and so begats more crime
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