The Vancouver Police Department is Lying

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...

A Vancouver Problem: Cops Investigating Cops

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...

Trafficking in Disruption: Drug Injection Site Holds Party on Hastings St. du...

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...

Past Tense: “The Dope Craze that’s Terrorizing Vancouver”

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...

Traffic Lights Down, No Cops Around

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...

Emergency Response Team Enters Jubilee Rooms

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...

Gang Violence Task Force at No. 5 Orange Strip Bar on Downtown Eastside

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...

Evidence Tampering in CUPE Police Complaint

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...

VPD Helps Out In The US Drug War

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...

Vancouver Police caught lying at murder trial

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

Vancouver Police: forensic fumbling & racial profiling

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...

Vancouver police sergeant faces assault charge (CBC British Columbia)

"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...

Police Surround Vancouver Neighborhood

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...

Vancouver police accused of a 'cover-up' (CBC British Columbia)

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."

Police Version of Fatal Shooting Absurd: Expert

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....

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