FOI records suggest VicPD engaged with the Canada Border Services Agency 61% more in 2023 than in 2019, as the department continues to turn people over for deportation.
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Since January 2018, VicPD intentionally hit at least nine people using their police cars or car doors, including people on foot, bikes, and a scooter, injuring multiple people.
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FOI data shows VicPD officers regularly use types of force the department says it doesn’t track, including “vascular neck restraints” and punching and kicking people, including people in handcuffs.
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Street check and general occurrence report FOI data shows Metro Vancouver’s Transit Police targeting BIPOC people.
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FOI data from 11 municipal police departments highlights systemic racism in B.C. policing, including in vehicle and other stops.
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A VicPD officer drove into someone with enough force to send them to hospital. The events that followed show the lack of accountability for daily assaults by VicPD.
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Freedom of Information requests with data on VicPD’s drug seizures and possession arrests.
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Records show “crime watch” volunteers look for expired licence plate stickers and peer into cars while acting as surveillance for VicPD and furthering harms.
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The Block Watch program promotes a vision of neighbourhoods and community based on surveillance and displacement.
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The Northern Junk development proposal includes defensive architecture and promotes its tenants’ ability to surveil Reeson Park as a “crime prevention through environmental design” benefit to meet city requirements.
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Given that the board is preparing to welcome VicPD’s school liaison officers back into SD61 schools, it’s incumbent on the board to understand the effects police have on students’ lives.
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Needs More Spikes’ defensive architecture tour wraps up this week, starting with Oak Bay.
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