Help end discrimination in policing

Details: Published on Tuesday, 11 December 2018 07:54; Written by editor

Demand police accountability

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Dear friends,

For years, in our work calling for police accountability, we have heard from racialized communities in BC that they are over-policed and under-protected.

Elaine Durocher, a Métis grandmother and board member of Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre, shared her experience of street checks by the police:

"For Indigenous women surviving colonial gendered violence, street checks are yet one more way that we are over-policed and under-protected on our own lands.”

Will you join us as we fight for police accountability by making a donation today?

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While we have heard stories such as Elaine’s for decades now, it was not until this year that we saw the data showing that Indigenous and Black people are over-represented in the rates of “street checks.”

Together, with the Union of BC Indian Chiefs we called on the Vancouver Police Departmet to answer for these disproportionate rates of street checks.

We are already making progress. In response to our campaign, the Vancouver Police Board ordered an independent study into the VPD’s practice of street checks. In the coming year we’ll be working to ensure that the BC government develops a policy that will end the over-representation of racialized communities in the rates of street checks.

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Please give today to support our work toward bias-free policing in our province. If everyone receiving this email donated $15 dollars right now, we would meet our goal to support this work in 2019.

And remember, our anonymous matching donor means that every dollar you give today will go twice as far!

Sincerely,

Dylan Mazur
BCCLA Community Lawyer

P.S. You can make a contribution to our matching campaign until December 17th! Every gift will receive a tax receipt in the New Year.

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