The ability of the criminal justice system to deal effectively and humanely with both rape victims, and victims with mental health problems, has been an area of persistent criticism in recent times.

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A police force has admitted failing a woman whose allegation of rape was not investigated because her case notes were left under piles of paperwork on a detective's desk, the Guardian has learned.

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Rape in this country is surprisingly easy to get away with. The arrest rate last year was just 25 percent - a fraction of the rate for murder - 79 percent, and aggravated assault - 51 percent.

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There is no firm national count of the number of untested rape kits. But last March, Human Rights Watch found more than 12,500 untested rape kits in the Los Angeles area alone. The Houston Police Department recently found at least 4,000 untested rape kits in storage.

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A neighbor of the convicted rapist in Cleveland who was arrested Saturday night after six decomposed bodies were found in his house said Monday that the police were notified repeatedly about violence there, but little was done.

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The Braidwood Inquiry into the Taser-related death of Robert Dziekanski has been blown up and left in ruins by the revelation a key RCMP e-mail was withheld from the commission.

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A shocking e-mail found last week brought the Braidwood inquiry to a sudden halt Friday and may result in the most senior RCMP officers in B.C. being required to testify.

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The unseemly 11th-hour attempt by four Mounties to muzzle the public inquiry into the Taser-related death of Robert Dziekanski thankfully was quashed by the B.C. Supreme Court.

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It was the second time this week the RCMP has apologized for disseminating wrong information about the Dziekanski incident immediately after it happened. The misinformation wasn't corrected until last December.

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A man who said he saw two police officers shoot and kill a homeless man on a downtown Vancouver street last Friday morning said he filmed the fatal confrontation, but a police officer later demanded his cellphone and erased the video.

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Mr. Paul, a Mi'kmaq from the Elsipogtog First Nation in New Brunswick, was homeless in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside when he died of hypothermia after being dragged out of a police drunk tank to be left propped against a wall in a cold December rain.

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