Lorimer Shenher, a retired VPD detective, said he was skeptical that police were continuing to actively investigate the circumstances around Poorman’s disappearance.
Citing an ongoing investigation is “a convenient catch-all tool they use to hide lack of action on a file,” Shenher said, “citing either investigative necessity or the potential of jeopardizing something they have going on.”
Shenher said if the Poorman family has not heard any updates from VPD recently, “you’re safe to assume this is a tactic to avoid scrutiny of the file and their failings.” [Tyee]
Sadly, and not surprisingly:
Quick! Now tell us the closure rate of all cases of this type, and speculate as to the reason for any failures there too.
(Hint: it’s not 100%, and it’s not a matter of ‘just’ applying effort, no matter how much that one bitter ex-cop lets us infer)