Winnipeg Copwatch

Writing in Nexus, Alicia Gilmour raises questions around the double-standards in treatment of police who commit what would normally be criminal offences. Her article follows the announcement by the Vancouver Police Department that no charges will be laid against a Victoria officer who appeared in a YouTube clip last year at an incident outside of [...]

Police violence is a systemic issue and not a series of isolated incidents, according to the Mar. 18 opening panel of the Forum on Police Violence, Incarceration, and Alternatives. “On a daily basis police harass, they profile, they abuse people, they injure, they assault, they intimidate, they kill. This is police impunity. This is something [...]