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Criminalization and Policing

Community Members respond to the Shuttering of Motion B3

The #StopTheSweeps Coalition denounces Vancouver City Council and its refusal to end the practice of street sweeps.
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Jun 22, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

Coalition of Downtown Eastside residents and Organizations rally against City to End Street Sweeps

Community rally at Carrall and Hastings to protest the City of Vancouver’s brutal practice of street sweeps
By Taz Khandwani Taz Khandwani | Jun 15, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

Street Sweeps & Disability Justice

This year’s blog features an interview with Gabrielle Peters. Gabrielle is a disabled writer and policy analyst and a commissioner on the Vancouver City Planning Commission. She is co-founder of Dignity Denied and the Disability Filibuster. Gabrielle’s work often focuses on further developing the radical theory of accessibility by integrating the lessons of disability justice, harm reduction, trauma-informed practice and grassroots community development and transformative change activism. On Access Awareness Day, we are reminding municipalities that accessible and inclusive communities don’t rely on municipal violence to displace people. To better understand the place of #StopTheSweeps within broader disability justice struggles, Gabrielle Peters shares important insights.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Jun 04, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

BC’s Investigation into prolific offenders: A backgrounder & human rights response

This Investigation uses stigmatizing assumptions and terminology, and is a rushed and inadequate process that is not centered on people’s basic human rights and their lived experience of criminalization.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Jun 03, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

#StopTheSweeps: Ending Cyclical Displacement and Criminalized Poverty in Vancouver

#StopTheSweeps report is a part of a broad campaign to end the constant displacement and dispossession of unhoused people in Vancouver.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | May 02, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Research Reports

Advocates Respond to the Final Report & Recommendations from the Special Committee on Reforming the Police Act

SCORPA was tasked with understanding the role of police with respect to complex social issues including mental health and wellness, addictions, and harm reduction. Community advocates have reviewed the report and its 11 recommendations, and have responded to the proposals for transforming policing and community safety in BC. 
By Asha Nygra Asha Nygra | Apr 29, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

Surveillance is not safety: Vancouver must drop City Council CCTV motion

Daniella Barreto and Meenakshi Mannoe encourage Vancouver City Council to firmly oppose any calls for the expansion of CCTV in our communities.
By Daniella Barreto Daniella Barreto | Apr 26, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

Joint letter in opposition to Vancouver City Council motion for CCTV cameras

Joint letter from 15 organizations expressing deep concern about Vancouver City Council motion for CCTV cameras.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Apr 26, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Letters & Statements

BC Director of Police Services overrules City Council's decision, restoring $5.7 million to VPD.

Next week, City Council will receive the Report on the Vancouver Police Board Budget Increase. We’re asking our allies to sign up to speak or write in support of Council Member Jean Swanson’s Motion “Rejecting the Increase to the 2021 Police Budget.”
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Apr 08, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

The 1st anniversary of the VPD killing of Chester

Today marks the 1st anniversary of the VPD killing of Chester. This year, Pivot is supporting members of the Defund 604 Network and VANDU, who are coming together to mark the first anniversary of his murder.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Jan 05, 2022 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog
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Pivot Legal Society is located on stolen lands of the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) peoples. 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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