#vancouver police department

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The Vancouver School Board (VSB) may be prepared to “welcome” police officers back into schools next week, but it’s not a sentiment that’s shared by all.

On Thursday, the VSB held a press conference to reiterate its commitment to creating “safe, welcoming and inclusive spaces” for its learners, and said the new “reimagined” school liaison officer (SLO) program will advance school safety.

It also presented a new look for the SLOs that includes casual polo shirts, unmarked police vehicles and more discreet firearms.

Even with the lighter visual touch, however, the decision to bring police back into schools has been vigorously opposed by members of the Vancouver Police Department’s African Descent Advisory Committee. Members Sadie Kuehn and Parker Johnson said they’re concerned about potential harm to Black, Indigenous, racialized, queer, and disabled students.

“The (new look) doesn’t address the core issues of having young people — all young people — feel safe,” Kuehn, a former school trustee, told Global News on Friday.

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This is exactly the problem with the white centrist approach to dealing with the problems around police. Putting them in new clothes in new cars with "discreet firearms" doesn't do a damn thing to protect people from the violent, oppressive force that is the police.

None of these changes address racial profiling, police brutality, or the fact that marginalized people (rightfully) feel unsafe around cops.

These changes are useless. Abolish the police.

(Commentary from Samira, @politicsofcanada )

#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #canadian #vancouver #british columbia #BC #vancouver school board #vancouver police department #vancouver police #cops #police #police in schools #abolish the police #cops tw #police tw

[bikerlovertexas]

#MJ #marijuana #cannabis #Vancouver Art Gallery #April 20 #4/20 #pot #Marc Emery #Vancouver Police #VPD #Vancouver Police Department #Vancouver #Police #flickr

[bananarchy4ever]

Repost from @defund604network's instagram account. Graphic by Whess Harman. Info below.

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Callout for International Solidarity | Week of Action April 21-29 2023

/WHAT/ We are asking folks to autonomously organize solidarity actions in your own communities & let us know: encampmentsolidarity(AT)gmail.com.

We will be putting together a list of ALL solidarity actions in the coming days.

/OUR DEMANDS/ - No Displacement on Stolen Land - Stop the Sweeps / End Bylaw Raids - Homes Not Cops

Week of action begins Friday April 21, with a #StopTheSweeps action in so-called Victoria. More details via @mr.georgejim

/WHY/ #StopTheSweeps Coalition & supporters call for international solidarity in the struggle against colonial state-led displacement. We hope to see multiple cities across Turtle Island show up in care and solidarity with unhoused community members, while continuing to demand an end to inhumane practices of encampment evictions and sweeps.

Actions call on community members to take care of each other in the face of state abandonment. Actions call on all levels of govt to cease ongoing colonial dispossession, to end constant police surveillance and the enforcement of inhumane bylaws in encampments & to immediately respond to the urgent need for safe, autonomous, accessible public housing.

You can begin with material support and a willingness to learn and contribute to #MutualAid. We must show up for those that are criminalized and displaced by our cities.

/BACKGROUND/ Hastings Tent City in the #DTES of so-called Vancouver, has been a site of unhoused community and solidarity the past year in the face of ongoing state-led displacement.

On April 5 & 6, Hastings Tent City was raided by an occupying army of the #VPD & and city workers. Police-led decampment shut down multiple city blocks, restricted access to essential health services, and systematically stole homes and belongings.

The city has not offered dignified housing for those they are evicting, and admits that there is not even adequate shelter space. In the weeks since, the city and cops have continued to wage war on the poor and attempted to “reset behaviour” through daily intimidation & militarized sweeps.

#stop the sweeps #housing crisis #poverty #late stage capitalism #housing justice #acab #solidarity action #solidarity week #defund the fucking police #care not cops #colonialism #bc politics #vancouver bc #cdnpoli #canada #british columbia #Housing first #housing not handcuffs #bc housing #vancouver police department #anarchism #antifascism #antifascist #ancom #disability justice #direct action #activism #human rights #discrimination #social justice

[thearbourist]

The Vancouver Police Department Not Doing Their Job - No Assault Charges for an Assault

Sorry folks, the videos in question are only available on Twitter at the moment. But what they depict is a trans identified male assaulting someone in front of the police. The police response was to do nothing and call the incidence a ‘mutual fight’. The police are there to enforce the laws for everyone in society. This did not happen. Please contact the Vancouver Police department and register a…

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#Billboard Chris #Calling Out Violent Transactivism #Canada #TransdayofTerrorism #Vancouver Police Department

[newsfromstolenland]

"There was the officer who told Tyler Nielsen she needed to check his licence because he was driving a car-share vehicle. Two weeks later, another officer warned him — incorrectly — that there were warrants out for his arrest.

Then two RCMP officers in Surrey pulled Nielsen out of his car and handcuffed him before letting him go with no charges and little explanation. Six months later, he was pulled over again by an officer who explained she just needed to check his licence, because sometimes car-share vehicles are stolen or driven by people who don’t have a valid driver’s licence.

Finally, there was the officer who told Nielsen he’d been pulled over because he wasn’t wearing a seatbelt.

Nielsen says being pulled over six times in 18 months is not normal for him. He’s had no traffic tickets in the five years he’s lived in B.C., and none of the traffic stops have resulted in tickets or charges.

But he can identify when the traffic stops started — after he was interviewed by several local news outlets in August 2021.

In September 2020, Nielsen had filmed a Vancouver Police Department officer shoving a man so hard that he fell backwards and hit his head on the pavement. A complaint about the incident had previously been made to B.C.’s Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner, but the office had ruled the complaint “unsubstantiated” and closed the file.

That changed when BeeLee Lee, a friend of Nielsen’s, posted his video on her social media accounts nearly a year after the incident took place. Global News, The Tyee and Vancouver Is Awesome all reported on the story and the police complaint was reopened. In October 2021, the complaint was referred to the RCMP for a criminal investigation.

Nielsen says the first traffic stop happened soon after he gave media interviews about his video in August 2021. After that stop, he started recording on his phone whenever he noticed police had started tailing or surveilling him."

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian news #canadian politics #british columbia #BC #cops #police #acab #abolish the police #cops tw #police tw #mine #tyler nielsen

[ralfmaximus]

Rodney gets kidnapped, and they call out half of Vancouver's police department to help find him!

#stargate #stargate atlantis

[starry-hughes]

what are each of the boys’ individual reactions to mooch being missing?

quinn and cole: literally going crazy. they are ready to call in the city of vancouver’s police department and do a citywide search

jack and luke: freaking out from jersey. luke is spamming mooch’s phone. jack is making missing posters on canva

alex: he called so many times and left so many voicemails that mooch’s mailbox is now full

jamie and trevor: panicking, trevor is wailing like he lost his baby in a park. jamie is checking mooch’s tagged posts on instagram every 5 minutes just to see if any fans posts photos with her

#osu!hughes sister

[rabbitcruiser]

Vancouver Seawall (No. 6)

A protracted conflict between pedestrians and cyclists plagued the seawall for years. Strolling pedestrians took issue with cyclists speeding by, while cyclists felt they had a right to cycle the seawall. As traffic increased over time, collisions were becoming more frequent. Cycling on the seawall was consequently outlawed, and by 1976, the Vancouver Police Department had issued 3,000 tickets to offenders. A solution was proposed in 1977 by a Calgary-based group of charitable foundations. It offered to pay $900,000 to widen the path on the English Bay side to 6 metres (20 ft) in order to accommodate both cyclists and pedestrians on the condition that the city match that amount. The proposal triggered an outcry from environmentalist groups, such as the Save Our Parkland Association. City council nonetheless agreed to the plan, but conflict between user groups persisted. The issue was not resolved until 1984 when the bicycle lane of the seawall was designated one-way in a counterclockwise direction around the park, which it remains today. That resolution brought fewer accidents, but as late as 1993, proposals to ban cycling on the seawall continued to be put forth. The popularity of inline skating in the 1990s also contributed to the debate over seawall use, as well as skateboarders to a lesser extent, until users were divided into wheeled versus non-wheeled camps. It appears unlikely that a consensus will emerge over the most appropriate mode of travelling the seawall, but as long as accidents remain minimal, it is unlikely to re-emerge as a pressing park-use issue. A survey conducted for a 1992 task force on the park found that 65% of park users supported bicycle traffic on the seawall compared with 20% who favoured banning cyclists.

The seawall route has continued to expand, so that a continuous, mostly seaside, path for pedestrians, cyclists, and inline skaters now extends for a total of 22 kilometres (14 mi). Starting from Coal Harbour, it winds around Stanley Park, along Sunset Beach, around False Creek, past the Burrard Street Bridge, through Vanier Park, and finishes at Kitsilano Beach Park.

Source: Wikipedia

#Vancouver Seawall #False Creek #downtown #Vancouver #BC #British Columbia #travel #original photography #vacation #tourist attraction #landmark #architecture #cityscape #Canada #summer 2023 #street lamp #tree #flower #detail #boat #ship #marina #Burrard Green Streets Garden #sand #shells #Canada Goose #bird #flora #fauna #bee

[mariacallous]

Ekpar Asat, founder of one of the most popular Uyghur-language websites, started his career as many tech entrepreneurs do: In 2007, he turned his college project into a successful news site and forum called Bagdax.

On the wall of his office were pictures of his role models: Mark Zuckerberg, Barack Obama, and Jack Ma. As a minor celebrity in the western Chinese region of Xinjiang, Asat, also known as Mr. Bagdax, was invited to provincial government events and to the offices of China’s tech giants. Even if the platform had to adhere to China’s strict censorship rules—at one point, four police officers were tasked with monitoring it—its base quickly grew to over 100,000 users.

In early 2016, however, Asat was swept up in a mass detention campaign, alongside a reported 1 million members of Uyghur and other Turkic minorities, after returning from an entrepreneur leadership program organized by the US State Department.

Within a year, Bagdax and other popular Uyghur websites—such as Misranim, Bozqir, and Ana Tuprak—permanently stopped updating. And they weren’t the only ones. As Beijing’s crackdown in the Xinjiang region unfolded, the vast majority of independent Uyghur-run websites ceased to exist, according to local tech industry insiders and academics tracking the online Uyghur-language sphere.

“It’s like erasing the life work of thousands and thousands of people to build something—a future for their own society,” says Darren Byler, assistant professor of international studies at Simon Fraser University in Vancouver and an author of several books on China’s treatment of Uyghurs. Many of the people behind the websites have also disappeared into China’s detention camp system. Developers, computer scientists, and IT experts—especially those working on Uyghur-language products—have been detained, according to members of the minority living abroad. The detentions are a part of China’s crackdown on the majority Muslim region, which has been rocked by several terrorist attacks in the past two decades. Human rights groups have accused the Chinese government of mass surveillance, forced labor, and wiping out the ethnic minority’s culture. Beijing claims that the camps are reeducation centers for vocational job training and countering extremism. 

Ekpar Asat’s sister Rayhan Asat says that the shutdown can be seen as an attack against Uyghur language and culture and that the Chinese government’s repression has often targeted the region’s best and brightest. “Why would an eminent tech entrepreneur need to be reeducated? What kind of skills does he need?” she says. The Public Security Bureau of Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, did not respond to phone calls.

A major Central Asian Silk Road outpost in the past, Urumqi is no Silicon Valley. Still, by 2014 a small cluster of tech companies was beginning to form just south of its Grand Bazaar. But the blossoming was short-lived, and in 2016 repression was in full swing. “Our region literally became a prison without walls,”  says Abdurrahim Devlet, founder of Bilkan, the company behind 30 apps, a line of hardware, and the first online Uyghur bookstore. Devlet decided to leave Xinjiang after a wave of arrests targeting individuals, including Bilkan’s manager, who was later sentenced to 25 years in prison. After shuttering his company, Devlet is now living in Turkey and working on a doctorate in history. 

Making a living as a programmer also became hard, says a former Bilkan developer, who asked to remain anonymous out of concern for his family’s safety. In 2016, the government started requiring that websites establish Communist Party branches or be supervised by a party member, making it difficult to avoid blacklisting. 

Authorities have also expanded the list of blocked websites from Google and other Western social media platforms to GitHub and Stack Overflow, popular developer tool platforms that remain available to coders in the rest of China. Targeting of the Uyghur IT sector, especially website owners, keeps happening because these individuals are influential in society, says Abduweli Ayup, a language activist who has been keeping a tally of Xinjiang intellectuals who have disappeared into the camp system, a list containing names of over a dozen people working in the technology sector. “They are the leading force in the economy—and after that leading force disappears, people become poor,”  Ayup says. 

Xinjiang’s digital erasure is only the most recent blow to its online sphere. In 2009, after riots exploded in Urumqi, China hit back with an internet shutdown and a wave of arrests of bloggers and webmasters. Advocacy organization Uyghur Human Rights Project estimates that over 80 percent of Uyghur websites did not return after the shutdown.  But even though the region was plagued by small-scale periodic internet blackouts, the Uyghur internet had grown vibrant. And for the Uyghur community, those websites were a place for both rediscovering Islamic religious practices and having conversations about hot-button issues such as homophobia, trans issues, and sexism. More importantly, the internet helped Uyghurs create an image of themselves different from the one offered by Chinese state media, says Rebecca Clothey, associate professor at Philadelphia’s Drexel University. “An online space in which they can talk about issues that are relevant to them gives them the ability to have a way of thinking about themselves as a unified mass,”  she says. “Without that, they’re scattered.” 

Uyghurs in Xinjiang now use domestic platforms and apps made by China’s tech giants. Although WeChat still hosts Uyghur-language accounts, the platform is known for its censorship system.

Some Uyghurs, however, have found tiny cracks in the wall through which they communicate and express themselves. People hold up signs with messages during video calls, out of fear that their conversations may be monitored. Young people are switching their conversations to gaming apps.

On China’s version of TikTok, ByteDance-owned Douyin, Uyghurs have been stealthily filming scenes from Xinjiang that differ from state propaganda videos showing smiling dancers in traditional robes. Some have filmed themselves crying over pictures of their loved ones. Others have captured orphanages with children of detained Uyghurs or people being loaded onto buses, a possible reference to forced labor. The clips are stripped of information, leaving conclusions to the viewers.

Recently, Chinese authorities have been rolling back some controls over the Uyghur language, says Byler. In late 2019, Beijing announced that people held in vocational training centers in China had all “graduated,” while scaling back some of the more visible signs of its high-tech police state. 

Uyghurs abroad, however, say that many of their friends and relatives are still in camps or have received arbitrary prison sentences. Ekpar Asat was sentenced to 15 years in prison on charges of inciting ethnic hatred and discrimination. And although some parts of the Uyghur internet are archived for future digital archaeology, much of it has simply vanished forever. “That’s just been eliminated overnight, and there’s not much of a way of recovering that information,” says Byler.

This article was originally published in the May/June 2022 issue of WIRED UK magazine.

[allthecanadianpolitics]

The former vice-chair of the Vancouver Police Board (VPB) has explained the reasons behind her Jan. 30 resignation, saying that apparent conflicts of interest and political interference made her unable to continue. Faye Wightman, an experienced board member who was first appointed to her role in August 2020, says two other board members at the VPB were reliant on the City of Vancouver for funding, and therefore had their objectivity compromised in their roles overseeing the Vancouver Police Department (VPD). She also alleged that Vancouver Mayor Ken Sim is exerting undue political pressure on the members, including by sending his chief of staff into meetings.

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#cdnpoli #canada #canadian politics #canadian news #british columbia #vancouver police board #police #vancouver police department

[bikerlovertexas]

#vancouver police department #motorcycle drill team #port coquitlam #may day #flickr

[bananarchy4ever]

Some Easter-themed posters denouncing the ongoing street sweeps of unhoused people in so-called Canada's most impoverished neighbourhood. The Vancouver city council and mayor are incredibly cruel and supportive of these sweeps. Disgusting. Posters like this and more available for download and distributing how you see fit.

#vancouver #british columbia #StopTheSweeps #Street Sweeps #housing justice #vancouver police department #VPD #police violence #defund the police #defund the fucking police #housing crisis #affordable housing #all landlords are bastards #downtown eastside #dtes #easter

[expfcultragreen]

This is so weird

Their job isnt to solve this stuff its to tell us about it so we pay them to claim to try

[the-guild-codex-and-other-things]

Reporter on the news: The Vancouver Police Department and the Vancouver Fire and Rescue Services suspect that the recent rash of burnings in abandoned building districts are the result of arson. More at 11. Now here's Steve with the weather. *Ezra, Kai, and Tori turn to look at Aaron* Aaron: You know what? No one ever gets mad at Kai for causing power outages.

#The Guild Codex #The Guild Codex: Spellbound #Ezra Rowe #Kai Yamada #Tori Dawson

[beardedmrbean]

Three teenagers in North Texas are facing criminal charges after police say they went on a TikTok-inspired spree early Tuesday, “kicking in front doors and running away.”

The Cleburne Police Department said residents first reported the bizarre “criminal mischief” at 1:54 a.m. Tuesday, with “the front doors of houses being kicked in throughout the south part” of the city. Officers who responded to the calls nabbed three suspects, ages 15 to 17, following a foot pursuit, police said.

Authorities said more people may have been involved and could still be at large.

None of the suspects were identified, but police said the teens were “participating in a TikTok challenge” when they allegedly went on the door-kicking rampage in the middle of the night.

The trend has also apparently popped up in Vancouver, Oregon, where police reported responding to a spate of similar door-kicking incidents in late January. At that time, police attributed the attacks on unsuspecting residents to the “door kick challenge” making waves on TikTok.

The popular social-media platform has also been at the center of other—much deadlier—“games” in recent years, including one dubbed the “blackout challenge” that has been blamed for the deaths of several children who choked themselves to the point of passing out.

#nunyas news #idiots you're in texas #you can get yourself shot for this there

[fenrirswood-hq]

THURSDAY...

... after a month of careful speculation and painstaking investigation, the police has come out with the full list of the ten people who were murdered on the night of the 24th of June. A lot of backlash and call-outs have followed the departments slow response to the situation, with many people leaving Fenrir's Wood for the summer to avoid whatever was still bound to happen.

National news speaks of a blood thirsty serial murder plaguing this small city, that truly - according to the news - has no right to call itself that. With the investigation underfunded and no new leads, the public eye turns to what they do know: this has been going on for far too long.

Families with small children have been seeking work and lodging elsewhere, trading the old town for cities like Oxford and London. More and more people have taken to drinking, and several businesses have closed for the summer with no promise that they'll be back come September.

The international supernatural community has been sending help and questions to the Council of Fenrir's Wood, voicing their concern and giving advice. The most prominent question is: why hasn't Evanora Ray been charged yet?

The list:

Samuel Berg (Cillian Murphy fc), second in command of Saga's Coven and one of Fenrir's Wood's highest standing business men. He was doing research into the Norse Mythology to figure out who could've been behind the murders.

Carl Lund (Eamon Farren fc), brother of Leah Lund - former coven leader of Hel Coven who was murdered in the winter - had been trying to help Hel Coven make sense of the legacy left behind by his sister and support his brother-in-law with taking care of the children.

Patrick Anderson (Jason Clarke fc), uncle of Arthur Anderson who was murdered during the winter. He was the former police chef and high standing local. Also for the longest time an unaffiliated Witch.

Leonard Dahl (Martin Short fc), uncle of Esmee & Finnley Dahl, two of the earliest murders, had been away on a boating trip, having said to have wanted to miss the festivities because he felt it was unbecoming of the memory of his niece and nephew.

Laura Nyland (Freya Allan fc), best friend of Sarah Lund and a Witch of Hel Coven, she'd been eager to get out of Fenrir's Wood and had been trying to convince her parents to move to London.

Maria Pihl (Evangeline Lilly fc), dean of the Fenrir University, Maria was known to teach her Supernatural students a bit of history on the side in after hours, not wanting the rich history of her people to be forgotten.

Maiken Trygg (Michelle Pfeiffer fc), was on a boat with Leonard Dahl because she wanted to be away from people for a while. She was a fairly unknown witch and regarded as the crazy old hag who lived just outside of the city bounds.

Otto Anderson (Joe Locke fc), grandson of Patrick Anderson, he had been begging his grandfather to join Saga's Coven, because he believed fully that the witches rituals could stop further murders from happening.

Sarah Lund (Kizzy Edgell fc), daughter of Leah Lund - former coven leader of Hel Coven who was murdered in the winter - was nineteen years old and planning to go study abroad in Vancouver after the summer. She was a part of Hel Coven like her mother.

Agner Thorsun (Stellan Skarsgård fc), father of Lukas Thorsun who was murdered a year earlier. He was a powerful witch who wanted nothing but to see his grandchildren pull through after Lukas' death.

#death mention tw #murder tw #death tw #fwhqplot #police mention tw #fwhqdeads