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Criminalization and Policing

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 and 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 and Policing, Press Releases

Pivot Legal calls for the VPD to immediately cease practices undermining public health in DTES amid COVID-19

By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Apr 02, 2020 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

Community groups call for a moratorium on street checks

By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Feb 20, 2020 | Criminalization and Policing, Press Releases

BC's new policing standards are not a moratorium on "street stops"

By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Feb 05, 2020 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog

Memo on Street Checks Moratorium

The practice of "street check" lacks a basis in law and is disproportionately weaponized against racialized and low-income communities. This memo calls for a moratorium on street checks as the only alternative to reforms that risk legitimizing an overwhelmingly harmful and discriminatory practice.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Jul 25, 2019 | Criminalization and Policing, Legal Submissions

Know Your Rights Handbook: A guide for people who rely on public space

By Pivot Legal Society Pivot Legal Society | Jul 18, 2019 | Criminalization and Policing, Public Legal Education

Submissions to the Special Committee to Review the Police Complaint Process

As part of Pivot’s police accountability mandate we have been involved in many complaints filed with the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner (OPCC). We have 3 central recommendations for the Special Committee to Review the Police Complaint Process
By Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell Kaymi Yoon-Maxwell | Jul 03, 2019 | Criminalization and Policing, Legal Submissions

Project Inclusion Recommendations Influence New Bail Conditions Direction

By Pivot Legal Society Pivot Legal Society | Apr 17, 2019 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog, Drug Policy Reform, Project Inclusion

17 years of police violence in Canada

2000 - 2017: The number of victims who died after fatal interactions with police
By Peter Kim Peter Kim | Mar 28, 2019 | Criminalization and Policing, Featured, Blog
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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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