To conclude that police forces are racist, and conclude that is an answer in and of itself, misses the more pernicious problem: that to be prioritized as a missing person you need social capital. And social capital is not an infinite resource. It is not equally available to everyone. This is a fundamental, structural failure of the way every single police department in the world handles violence against marginalized people. 

 Asking a community steeped in trauma to stare at a post-mortem trophy photo of one of their dead was a massive, unfathomable ask. 

 The word, lifestyle, always makes me cringe when it's applied to queer folk. As though it were describing a love for crochet or Caribbean cruises, It strikes me that collapsing such a core part of someone's identity into a signifier as fleeting a lifestyle also robs police and the public of a vital part of the picture. A detail that could help tie cases together and expose trends.