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@philipoconnor.bsky.socialReposted by @policeoversight.caA police department changing its press release AFTER THE FACT is a very, very, very serious matter - not least when it publicly attacked the journalist who reported its original contents. There are questions to answer here.
@policeoversight.caReposted by @policeoversight.caNEW: Behind the Vancouver Police distortion of hate crime statistics
The VPD "altered their posted press release after the publication of my story, and added a new, more accurate graphic that aligned closer to the data obtained via FOI" @brishti.bsky.social
@brishti.bsky.socialReposted by @policeoversight.caNew: Here’s what went down behind the scenes 2 years ago when Vancouver Police changed their press release to make it look like my reporting in @thetyee.ca was false, and then launched an attack on X.
Thanks to @policeoversight.ca for asking me to write about this bizarre series of events!
@michaelledgerlomas.bsky.socialReposted by @policeoversight.caLies, damned lies and VPD statistics.
@alindop.bsky.socialReposted by @policeoversight.caJust as well there aren't any candidates in the upcoming Vancouver election that recently used to work for the VPD....
@policeoversight.caA conviction rate of just 1.43%: tracing BC's IIO investigations into police-involved deaths, killings and serious harm
78% percent of those convictions were for driving offences.
...And in BC, sexual assault by police is not considered "serious harm"
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@andreawoo.bsky.socialReposted by @policeoversight.caStatement from Connor Bildfell, president of the Canadian Bar Association's B.C. branch, on personal attacks on judges following last week's ruling re: the Drug User Liberation Front
@policeoversight.caNEW: Behind the Vancouver Police distortion of hate crime statistics
The VPD "altered their posted press release after the publication of my story, and added a new, more accurate graphic that aligned closer to the data obtained via FOI" @brishti.bsky.social
@policeoversight.cathey took the parking change 😭
@policeoversight.cathese are dimes
@policeoversight.ca@policeoversight.caReally had to spread the $20 bills out to make the $3,000 seem huge
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@andrewweichel.bsky.socialReposted by @policeoversight.caAnother election, another police candidate running with Mayor Ken Sim's ABC party.
The latest is a crime analyst who detected the pandemic-era spike in stranger assaults that became a major campaign issue in 2022.
@isabellazavarise.bsky.socialReposted by @policeoversight.caFor the second election in a row, a senior crime analyst with the Vancouver Police Department is running for city council in a partisan campaign—raising new questions about politicization within one of B.C.’s most powerful institutions.
@defactomedia.caReposted by @policeoversight.caA Vancouver cop told DULF’s founders he would personally advocate for them.
2 years later, he approved the investigation that led to raids on their homes.
@michellegamage.bsky.socialReposted by @policeoversight.caAbout 50 people crammed into the court room to hear the decision, which took Murray 10 minutes to deliver. Applause broke out as she stood, with people openly crying from relief, from happiness, from feeling like someone in power understood the urgency of the crisis.
@thetyee.caReposted by @policeoversight.caJustice Murray declared part of the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act unconstitutional, and trafficking convictions for Drug User Liberation Front co-founders Eris Nyx and Jeremy Kalicum have been stayed.
@tsk.bsky.socialReposted by @policeoversight.cawe have lost so many people while police & politicians created a spectacle, raided DULF, stopped the expansion of an alt to the toxic supply, and put its co-founders through the needless consequences of this process that took years. DULF saves lives
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@hanoomansingh.comReposted by @policeoversight.caThank goodness we have the judicial branch to provide sober second thought on these matters because, as detailed in the linked piece, the ‘serve and protect’ bunch were not interested in doing either. How much taxpayer money was wasted on this boondoggle? #BCpoli
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@idpc.netReposted by @policeoversight.ca🔥VICTORY FOR DULF & HARM REDUCTION!🔥
BC’s Supreme Court threw out the convictions of DULF’s co-founders, finding their community-led safer supply model saved lives and did not undermine public safety.
Parliament has 6 months to create a viable legal pathway. https://ow.ly/p6Ph50ZSZxv
