Durvile True Cases

Like its predecessors in the ‘Durvile True Cases’ series, After the Force features true cases and investigations, this time by police officers who have served in municipal, provincial, and federal police services. Stories in this anthology are by people who have been passionate about their work in law enforcement and who generously explain what it was about their work that led them to choose a career or specific way of life "after the force." Among the stunning themes in the book are stories dealing with prostitution and sex work, racism and misogyny, an encounter with a cop killer, police suicides, a child miraculously surviving a fall from a high-rise balcony, an officer dealing with a partner who was experiencing severe PTSD, a suicide from a bridge, and child sexual assaults. Optimistic themes and activities arise in these writers' lives after retiring from police work, such as writing, painting, assisting Indigenous communities, and facilitating community improvement.

Indigenous Justice is Book 10 in the Durvile True Cases series. In the spirit of truth and reconciliation and respectful of Indigenous cultural integrity, judges, lawyers, and law enforcement officers write about working with First Nations, Métis, and Inuit Peoples through their trials and tribulations with the criminal justice system. The stories are a mix of previously published essays from the True Cases anthologies with an equal number of new chapters by legal and law enforcement professionals. Foreword Chief Justice Shannon Smallwood Supreme Court of the Northwest Territories Introduction Lorene Shyba and Raymond Yakeleya Mindful of Culture and Tradition PART I The Judges and Senator 1. The Hon. Justice Thomas R. Berger The Mackenzie Valley Pipeline Inquiry 2. The Hon. Nancy Morrison Three Stories 3. The Hon. John Reilly Baret Labelle and Restorative Justice 4. The Hon. John Z. Vertes The Case of Henry Innuksuk 5. The Hon. Kim Pate The Story of S: A Study in Discrimination and Inequality PART II Lawyers 6. Eleanore Sunchild KC Treaty Lessons: The Killing of Colten Boushie 7. Jonathan Rudin The Death of Reggie Bushie and the Eight-Year Inquest 8. Catherine Dunn Silent Partner 9. Joseph Saulnier Justice in Hazelton: One Family, Two Murder Trials, a Hundred Years Apart 10. Brian Beresh KC A Life's Journey for Indigenous Justice 11. Jennifer Briscoe Fly-in Justice in the North 12. John L. Hill Carved in Stone The Mistreatment of Inuit Offenders PART III Law Enforcement and Parole Officer 13. Ernie Louttit There is No Law Against It Constable 14. Sharon Bourque A Full-Circle Experience 15. Constable Val Hoglund The Unwitting Criminal 225 16. Doug Heckbert I Know Who Killed My Brother 17. Doug Heckbert and Jennifer Bryce Getting FPS# Off Our Backs Index " I'm struck by how the True Cases series has a multiplicity of authentic perspectives that are able to be our proxy or conduit into amazing worlds... Stories that are happening in our community and to our neighbours that we should know about but don't." -Grant Stovers, CKUA Radio