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Letters & Statements

Unauthorized Police Enforcement of COVID-19 Travel Restrictions

Civil, legal, and community groups request an investigation into a May, 2021 incident of unauthorized police enforcement activity related to COVID-19.
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | May 13, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Blog, Letters & Statements

Letter to the Vancouver Police Board: Defund the VPD

Pivot Legal Society writes the Vancouver Police Board to urge them to: "substantively engage with the individuals, communities, and organizations that are calling for defunding the VPD as a matter of survival"
By Meenakshi Mannoe Meenakshi Mannoe | Apr 16, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Letters & Statements

Rights Organizations Advocate for Unconditional Drug Decriminalization in Vancouver

Joint letter (HLN, CDPC, and Pivot) urging Vancouver to develop a “Vancouver Model” for decriminalization that is appropriately broad and responds to the aspirations and needs of people who use drugs.
By Caitlin Shane Caitlin Shane | Mar 25, 2021 | Blog, Drug Policy Reform, Letters & Statements

VANDU and Pivot's position on threshold amounts in Vancouver's application to decriminalize

Threshold amounts must be appropriately high in order to eliminate both the abuse of police discretion and the enforcement and confiscation of below-threshold amounts.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Mar 15, 2021 | Drug Policy Reform, Letters & Statements

Joint Open Letter on Decriminalizing Poverty

Over 20 organizations are calling on the City of Vancouver to invest in non-police interventions that support people who are impacted by homelessness, toxic drug supply, mental health distress, and those working in informal economies and criminalized industries, such as sex work
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Mar 11, 2021 | Criminalization and Policing, Letters & Statements

Joint Letter urging Health Canada to Issue Decriminalization Exemptions Quickly, Without Conditions

There is truly no time to waste. We urge Health Canada to listen to the health and human rights experts who have already spoken about this, follow the public health evidence, and issue these exemptions quickly, without onerous and unnecessary conditions or restrictions. Lives and health are at stake.
By Caitlin Shane Caitlin Shane | Feb 11, 2021 | Drug Policy Reform, Letters & Statements

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 Kaur Asha Kaur | Dec 14, 2020 | Criminalization and Policing, Letters & Statements

Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users & Pivot Legal Society Joint Statement

Principally, we support full decriminalization. We do not support the use of administrative or other regimes to control, coerce, medicalize, pathologize, or penalize drug use.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Nov 19, 2020 | Drug Policy Reform, Letters & Statements

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

Pivot Writes to Provincial Party Leaders

Pivot writes to provincial party leaders, to urge them to enshrine dignity and equity within their respective platforms, party, and public discourse.
By Sozan Savehilaghi Sozan Savehilaghi | Oct 20, 2020 | 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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