Violence against women data doesn’t reflect La Ronge
La Ronge may have placed high on a list of police-reported statistics about violence against women, but the numbers don’t tell the whole story according to a women who works on the front lines.
In a report published by Vancouver based Discourse Media, La Ronge was found to have the third-highest rate of police-reported violence against women in the country. The report used Statistics Canada data from 600 communities, and the results were shared with larongeNOW. The data used in the report was collected between 2008 and 2015.
Piwapan Women’s Center Executive Director Karen Sanderson said the numbers don’t show a true reflection of the community.
“It’s not really a positive highlight on some of the stuff we do here and some of the programs that are available,” Sanderson said.