Donate
  • Campaigns
    • Drug Policy Reform
    • Homes For All
    • Criminalization & Policing
    • Project Inclusion
    • Sex Workers' Rights
  • Our Work
    • Legal Submissions
    • Research Reports
    • Letters & Statements
    • Position Papers
    • Data Visualizations
  • Community Resources
    • COVID-19 Resource List
    • Public Legal Education
    • Legal Referral Information
    • SCS and OPS in Canada Map
  • News & Media
    • Blog
    • Press Releases
    • In the News
    • Videos
    • Media Contact
  • Get Involved
    • Join Email List
    • Events
    • Work
    • Membership
  • About
    • Our Story
    • Our Staff
    • Our Board
    • Annual Reports
    • Contact Us
  • Donate

Criminalization & Policing

Coalition of Organizations Call for End to Vancouver Police Department Trespass Prevention Program

The VPD’s Trespass Prevention Program is another deliberate attack on poor and unhoused people. Once again, police expend vital public resources to criminalize people who rely on public space.
Jan 28, 2021 | Criminalization & Policing, Press Releases

WHO'S NEXT? DTES Community Vigil for Man Murdered by VPD

A vigil is being called for Tuesday, January 12 at 380 East Hastings to commemorate our fallen friend’s tragic death at the hands of the Vancouver Police Department.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Jan 12, 2021 | Criminalization & Policing, Press Releases

Community Groups Respond to the Shuttered VPD Neighbourhood Response Team

On patrol for less than 2 months, the VPD’s untimely deployment of the Neighbourhood Response Team was a flashpoint for the continued criminalization of poverty in Vancouver.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Dec 21, 2020 | Criminalization & Policing, Press Releases

Joint Statement Re: Vancouver Police Department 2021 Operating Budget

Last week, Vancouver City Council approved over $340 million in police funding and rejected a motion calling for a budget cut of $5 million. The failure to decisively defund the police – by both Council and the Police Board – enables the VPD to continue a longstanding pattern of interference, degradation, and harm in over-policed communities.
By Asha Nygra Asha Nygra | Dec 14, 2020 | Criminalization & Policing, Letters & Statements

Vancouver Budget: Defunding the Police to Fund Community Care & Services

Pivot’s Criminalization & Policing Campaigner, Meenakshi Mannoe, writes about defunding the VPD and the importance of shifting away from criminalization and enforcement and leaning into equity, inclusion, and social justice.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Dec 01, 2020 | Criminalization & Policing, Blog

Community groups file complaint against VPD’s new Neighbourhood Response Unit

A group of community organizations serving the Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside filed a Service and Policy Complaint with the Vancouver Police Board opposing the creation of a new VPD Neighbourhood Response Unit.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Nov 16, 2020 | Criminalization & Policing, Press Releases

Joint Complaint opposing New VPD Neighbourhood Response Team

Complaint to the Vancouver Police Board by Pivot Legal Society, Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users and Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society opposing VPD's new Neighbourhood Response Team
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Nov 16, 2020 | Criminalization & Policing, Legal Submissions

A call for transparent police data now!

Pivot Legal Society submits Freedom of Information request to Vancouver Police Department in a push for transparent data
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Oct 22, 2020 | Criminalization & Policing, Press Releases

Freedom of Information Request to the Vancouver Police Department

In recognition of the October 22nd International Day of Protest to Stop Police Brutality, Repression and Criminalization, Pivot submitted an FOI request to the VPD.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Oct 22, 2020 | Criminalization & Policing, Letters & Statements

Community Rehabilitation Does Not Belong in Prisons

Pivot Legal Society joins advocates and members of the Yukon bar to call for the suspension of a residential housing program within the Whitehorse Correctional Centre.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | May 04, 2020 | Criminalization & Policing, Press Releases
  • «
  • 1
  • 2
  • 3
  • 4
  • 5
  • 6
  • 7
  • »

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. 

support our work

Donate Today
121 HEATLEY AVENUE VANCOUVER, B.C. V6A 3E9
TEL: 604.255.9700
FAX: 604.255.1552
CHARITABLE REGISTRATION NO. 89451 0502 RR0001
©2020 Pivot Legal Society | Privacy Policy | Social Media Moderation Policy | Creative Credits
Sign in with Facebook, Twitter or email.
cStreet Campaigns