The CBC looked at thirty-four murder cases involving Indigenous women in which the police ruled out foul play and yet there were unexplainable bruises and other factors that contradict this conclusion. Even when the families of the murdered Indigenous women have pointed out foul play the police still deny them and insist that it was not. The police were uncooperative when it came to handing over files relating to MMIWG2S to the national inquiry. That slowed the inquiry down. 

When the RCMP receives a request for records they have to go through and redact all the information that is protected under Human Rights acts. Even Indigenous police forces have had a negative impact on MMIWG2S cases as a result of underfunding and sometimes operating without the tools or training to handle sexual assault cases or domestic violence. 

Due to systemic racism in the Canadian justice system, Indigenous people admit to crimes they did not commit to achieve a shorter sentence than they would have been given in court.