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Criminalization and Policing

Today, on International Day Against Police Brutality

Honour Their Names, an art exhibit and organizing space presented by #JusticeForJared returns to Gallery Gachet, opening on March 15, International Day Against police Brutality, and runs until March 24, 2023. #DefundThePolice #JusticeForJared
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Mar 15, 2023 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

Reflecting on the City of Vancouver’s 2023 Budget

Just 10 years ago, the VPD budget was $219.8 million. In the last decade, the VPD’s budget has almost doubled, with little to show in terms of “public safety.”
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Mar 07, 2023 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

Police out of Politics - Response to City of Vancouver budget 2023

Continuing to overfund the VPD, while people’s most basic needs are not met, amounts to a tacit approval of the havoc the police are wreaking on those made vulnerable by a discriminatory system. #PoliceOutOfPolitics #PoliceOutOfEverything
By Tonye Aganaba Tonye Aganaba | Feb 24, 2023 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

Remembering Chris Amyotte, Killed by the VPD.

Chris Amyotte was 42 years old. He is survived by his large loving family who have been bringing light to his unjust death. On behalf of Pivot Legal Society, we are asking our supporters to contribute generously to the gofundme organized by Chris’s daughter, Venus Cook: https://www.gofundme.com/f/kqgncr-justice-for-chris-amyotte
Dec 22, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, ICYMI, Recent Post

How the VPD Defunded our Communities

The legacies of racialized policing & controls continue to be replicated under expanding police budgets, with devastating impacts of state violence shouldered by Black & Indigenous communities.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Dec 19, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

#JusticeForJared and supporters respond to the Independent Investigations Office of BC’s Investigation into the Police-Involved Death of Jared Lowndes

MEDIA ADVISORY - On Thursday, December 1, Laura Holland and her family, as well as the BC Civil Liberties Association, Union of BC Indian Chiefs, and Pivot Legal Society, held a press conference in response to the final decision of the Independent Investigations Office of BC (IIO) regarding the investigation of the police-involved killing of Jared Lowndes.
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Dec 01, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

Hastings Tent City Residents Decamped While City Under Weather Warning

The City’s enforcement of this bylaw is constitutionally suspect, as it is being undertaken without due consideration of the human rights and social conditions of Hastings Tent City Residents.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Nov 29, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Anti-Stigma, Homes For All, Letters & Statements

Winter Housing Plan for People Who Shelter in Public Space

We write as seasonal weather changes take place, to inquire about housing plans from the city, province, and federal government for people who shelter in public space, including for the residents of the Hastings Tent City. Members of Our Streets have worked with Block Stewards, leaders and organizers who reside in the Hastings Street Tent City, to develop demands that reflect their housing needs: • Hands off tent cities • A real public option for housing • Real fire safety • Make landlords fix buildings • Protect all tenants’ rights under the law • Power to the tenants • Housing now
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Nov 22, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Anti-Stigma, Homes For All, Letters & Statements

VPD Manufactured Disinformation

VPD's "Vancouver's Social Safety Net: Rebuilding the Broken" report is manufactured disinformation and a distraction from the critical, life-limiting conditions that profoundly affect the most vulnerable members of our communities, across Vancouver.
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Nov 10, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Anti-Stigma, Letters & Statements

Supporting the call to dismantle BC’s family policing system

Support the calls of West Coast Leaf, BC Association of Social Workers, YWCA Metro Vancouver, Raincity Housing, Parents Advocating Collectively for Kin (PACK) BC, and Keeping Families Together, to dismantle the family policing system, and #StopTearingFamiliesApart https://act.newmode.net/action/west-coast-leaf/stop-tearing-families-apart
By Nina Taghaddosi Nina Taghaddosi | Nov 09, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Anti-Stigma, Letters & Statements
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Pivot Legal Society is located on stolen lands of the unceded territories of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam Indian Band), Sḵwx̱wú7mesh (Squamish Nation), and səlilwətaɬ (Tsleil-Waututh Nation). We are grateful to Indigenous Peoples for their continuous relationship with their lands and are committed to learning to work in solidarity as accomplices in shifting the colonial default. 

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