How would you feel if you were strolling down the street and saw an image that reminded you of yourself in the window of a police department? Now how would you feel if that likeness were being used to portray the...
opinion by jasonklym | 36 wks ago 289 views | 12 recommendations | 1 comment
Canadians Opposing Political Psychiatry has joined the chorus of voices in Vancouver calling for an end to police investigating themselves. COPP did so in a press release yesterday, shortly after former BC Supreme Court Judge William Davies released his recommendations from...
created by jr | 37 wks ago | updated 36 wks ago 604 views | 13 recommendations | 2 comments
Supporters of Insite, Vancouver's supervised drug injection site, disrupted rush hour traffic on Hastings St. just after 5 p.m. on Thursday, Oct. 23 to hold a party in support of keeping the facility...
created by jr | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 136 views | 10 recommendations | 5 comments
I recently heard a senior city planner say that economic decline in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside preceded the drug problem now associated with the area. The point he was making was valid – that the drug trade...
created by laniwurm | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 727 views | 24 recommendations | 10 comments
All traffic lights were stuck on red at the busy Main and Hastings intersection during rush hour this afternoon. I first got a report at about 3:30 p.m, another report at 4:00 p.m., and another at 4:45 p.m. that...
created by jr | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 320 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
Good Friday evening, the police Emergency Response Team with guns "resembling miniature AK47s", according to a witness, entered the Jubilee Rooms on Main St. on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. Their...
created by jr | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 413 views | 0 recommendations | 2 comments
Monday night, the Gang Violence Task Force was at the No. 5 Orange strip bar at Main & Powell St. They were also spotted there the Sunday before last. And once previous to that too.
The three officers -- one...
created by jr | 1 year ago | updated 1 year ago 1433 views | 10 recommendations | 1 comment
A former secretary to two CUPE Presidents has evidence that a "WORKPLACE HARASSMENT' notation beside her name in police files was changed a year after she was investigated and the case closed. The notation was changed to...
created by jr | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 271 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
I was walking out of Carnegie Centre the other day and bumped smack
into this little documentary project being shot on the corner. Being
on the Board of Directors at Carnegie (a City run activity...
created by leonasha | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 795 views | 37 recommendations | 14 comments
A Vancouver Police constable lied at the murder trial of Dennis Knibbs this week. We know it was either Constable Mark Naufeld or Constable Eileen Volpatti. Which one was it? Story at Downtown Eastside Enquirer
created by jr | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 610 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment
A cliffhanger. That’s how the murder trial of Dennis Knibbs ended it’s third day on Thursday. A witness who had dropped by the New Wings Hotel to buy cocaine, spotted a 2 foot long barrel of gun as the door to one of the rooms flung partially open. Then the gun went...
created by jr | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago 854 views | 10 recommendations | 2 comments
"A 16-year veteran of the Vancouver Police Department faces a charge of assaulting a male suspect during an incident in East Vancouver last October. Police say they were called to a store parking lot in the 2000-block of East Hastings Street where seven or eight youths had...
created by mtippett | 3 years ago 436 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
I live on the 25 hundred block of Graveley, and I awoke this morning to an established crime scene on my street. This usually quiet neighborhood was bustling with police activity, including a undercover...
created by clorenz1 | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 976 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
VANCOUVER – The Vancouver police response to the RCMP probe into allegations of officer misconduct on the Downtown Eastside is being dismissed as a "cover-up."
created by salsa | 4 years ago 265 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
posted by: Ytzhak (link)VANCOUVER - The police version of a fatal shooting involving two city officers makes no sense, says a former combat and tactical instructor to members of the Vancouver Police Department....
created by mtippett | 4 years ago | updated 4 years ago 332 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments