VicPD used to talk about terrorism as a budget pressure. They even paid for Chief Manak to do a terrorism studies degree. Manak’s emails mentioning ‘terror’ were mostly newsletters he gets.
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VicPD doesn’t know how many times their $320,000 armoured vehicle has been used since they bought it back in 2017. They also don’t know who used it, or for what purpose.
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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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FOI records show internal VicPD debate on the “thin blue line” symbol.
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Internally, Chief Manak criticized the idea that social workers could deescalate a conflict. They can, and they do.
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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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Part one of a defensive architecture tour of the CRD.
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An FOI shows VicPD dreams of a “steady blue light pilot,” to have lights on their cars all the time so people feel like they’re being watched.
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Over a decade of data obtained from B.C.’s municipal police departments through Freedom of Information requests show the departments disproportionately street check Indigenous and Black people.
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