VicPD continues to work with CBSA to deport people
FOI records suggest VicPD engaged with the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) 61% more in 2023 than in 2019, as…
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GAA Workshop – March 26th
Please join us a FREE Gender-Affirming Apparel Workshop: Gaffing/Tucking & Binding 101, hosted at Island Sexual Health! The workshop will…
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Celebrating 90 incredible years!
Yesterday, we had the absolute joy of celebrating a big milestone—a 90th birthday! Sandy and her long time client marked…
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“They could have killed the man”: Police cars as weapons
In 2017, after a VicPD officer saw a cyclist without a helmet, they “drove recklessly” after them. The officer cut…
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Island Health plans new, “healthier” hostile design
Outside Island Health’s doors at 1250 Quadra Street, rocks are cemented in place. A “Private Property” sign, which threatens arrest…
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FOI data shows extent of VicPD “use of force”
The B.C. government collects “use of force” data from police departments and publishes some of that data online. That data,…
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Mapping Victoria’s fake public space
This post is about spaces and agreements that may exclude people from privately-owned ‘public’ property. All of the land in question…
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VicPD’s street checks are racist, because of course they are
Update: A December 2019 follow-up post with a decade of street check data from all of B.C.’s municipal police departments…
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Hostile bench seeks loving and supportive wrench
One of the first posts I wrote for this site was about the city’s hostile benches, where “arm rests” are…
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136 people are peeing in Victoria right now
Building on some Internet math, Statistics Canada data, and an average pee time of 21 seconds and 6.5 pees per…
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Bike rack benches and fancy granite
Two years ago this month I wrote about some new un-sleepable benches that were coming to Victoria at Douglas and…
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A potpourri of displacement
In 2016, an officer with VicPD’s Community Services Division responded to “concerns with trespassing, open drug/alcohol use and drug paraphernalia/needles/feces…
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Forts on Fort
Nobody loves defensive architecture quite like Fort Street. Outside of business hours, locked gates block alcove after alcove. One gate…
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School district removes Spring Ridge Commons furniture
Spring Ridge Commons was created in 1999 as a “community urban food forest.” On February 4, 2019, the principal of…
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Shorter walls are in for 2019, but defensive architecture is still defensive architecture
On October 24, 2019, Victoria City Council will consider a report about whether one of the Pandora Avenue fences will…
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Keeping police out of Victoria and Esquimalt schools
Update: June 2021 presentation to SD61’s school liaison officer committee. In 2018, when Esquimalt rejected the Victoria Police Department’s request…
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B.C. police departments disproportionately street check Indigenous and Black people
Over a decade of data obtained from B.C.’s municipal police departments through Freedom of Information (FOI) requests show the departments…
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Defensive architecture on tour (Part 1)
Like bad takes about bike lanes, defensive architecture is a blight spread across Greater Victoria’s 13 municipalities. After spending $1.50…
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Defensive architecture on tour (Part 2)
Needs More Spikes’ CRD defensive architecture tour wraps up this week. Find part one here. Oak Bay First up this…
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Junk buildings
With the Northern Junk development back in the news in September, I checked to see if the proposal had any…
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Enforcing ‘community’ through Block Watch
Victoria Council will continue to fund displacement in the name of community-building in 2021. The city’s defensive architecture guidelines don’t…
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VicPD “crime watch” volunteers are watching licence plate stickers
My last post was about VicPD and the city bringing Block Watch policing into neighbourhoods under the guise of community…
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VicPD drug seizure and arrest data
Last year I filed several Freedom of Information (FOI) requests with VicPD. Two of those FOIs were modeled directly off…
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“Contact with a police vehicle”
On December 21, 2018, VicPD put out a press release with the headline “Witnesses sought after assault with a weapon.”…
