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Criminalization and Policing

Renewing calls to defund the police and resource communities

Meenakshi Mannoe & Kit Rothschild want City of Vancouver to reinvest 50% of the police budget into community-led crisis response and peer-led systems of care.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Nov 30, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

Defunding the VPD is an investment in public safety and collective well-being

Researcher and policy analyst Chuka Ejeckam distinguishes public safety from police spending, as these concepts are often conflated.
By Chuka Ejeckam Chuka Ejeckam | Nov 29, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog, Data Visualizations

We must defund the police to build safe, healthy, and sustainable communities

Defund 604 Network releases 6 demands to build safe, health and sustainable communities for all with release of results of the 2021 People’s Budget in advance of 2022 police budget deliberations.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Nov 22, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

“They know people don’t know their rights”: Daily street sweeps displace & dispossess unhoused DTES residents

Street sweeps are conducted every morning in the DTES. We must end this dehumanizing practice!
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Oct 15, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases, Homes For All

The Trespass Prevention Program Criminalizes Poverty

The Vancouver Police Department is doubling down on the Trespass Prevention Program by expanding it, despite concerns.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Oct 06, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

Joint Response to BC's "Proof of Vaccination" Health Order

BC's proof of vaccination plan as it currently stands, fails to account for people who will face legitimate barriers to accessing a vaccine card.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Sep 01, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Project Inclusion, Homes For All, Letters & Statements

Response to Transport 2050

BC Poverty Reduction Coalition, Homeless Services Association of BC, and Pivot Legal Society write to address transit poverty and the role of TransLink in eradicating inequity within its ridership.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Aug 24, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Letters & Statements

Pivot's Letter of Opposition regarding Motion B2 “Supporting Community-Led Public Safety in Mount Pleasant”

"Motion B2 assumes that policing is best-suited to respond to a myriad of social and economic issues, rather than grappling with what interventions could be made available through defunding police and investing in community-led crisis intervention."
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Jul 21, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog, Letters & Statements

Rights Card on Alcohol Seizure

You can refuse consent for law enforcement to seize or dump your alcohol because it violates your charter rights and undermines harm reduction.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Jun 29, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Drug Policy Reform, Public Legal Education

Coalition of Organizations Boycott City Panel on Decriminalizing Poverty

"We are making the difficult decision to cease any involvement with the process. In order to move forward with defunding police while supporting community-led initiatives, police and/or police-adjacent organizations cannot be at the table. "
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Jun 22, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog, 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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