Winnipeg Copwatch

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Thursday April 19 noon-3pm Inner City Campus  - 527 Selkirk Ave.   Please join us in celebrating the launch of Racialized Policing: Aboriginal People’s Experiences with the Police, by Elizabeth Comack. Dr. Comack will deliver a talk as well as a question and answer session. This event is free to all. Policing is a controversial [...]

The Run For Rights benefit is coming up, featuring Ridley Bent, Scott Nolan, and Claire Bestland Band. Contact wpgcopwatch@gmail.com for tickets! Support Winnipeg Copwatch and other Winnipeg social justice groups.            

April 4 is Refugee Rights Day – Axe the Refugee Exclusion Act! Do you know about the new Refugee Exclusion Act tabled by the Tory government and Minister of Censorship and Deportation Jason Kenney? It creates a discriminatory two-tier system of refugee protection, mandates incarceration for many refugees, and revokes permanent residency for many who have already been [...]

Shurli Chan, from the Downtown Eastside Power of Women Group (Vancouver), shares her experiences with policing and mental health as part of the In Our Own Voices writing project. Read her story here: http://www.dominionpaper.ca/articles/4077            

Kristian Williams speaks in this audio interview about his first book, Our Enemies in Blue: Police and Power in America, about recent articles about community policing and the counterinsurgency training shared between the U.S. military and domestic law enforcement agencies, and about the growing movement calling for the abolition of police in the United States, [...]

Gabrielle Giroday has an article in today’s Winnipeg Free Press about the police response to the epidemic of missing & murdered women. It features Bernice and Wilfred Catcheway, who aren’t relying on the police to uncover what happened to their missing daughter. “We just go on searching,” said Bernice Catcheway, who spent $10,000 to excavate [...]

The Ontario Provincial Police have decided not to press charges against Ottawa police for their in-custody treatment of Stacy Bonds. “It is the sixth incident OPP were asked to investigate involving the handling of people in the cellblock. In all cases, the OPP found no evidence of criminal wrongdoing.”

An (almost) Fortnightly Fundraiser for Winnipeg Copwatch’s International Conference featuring the following films: June 1: Serpico starring Al Pacino directed by Sidney Lumet “The true story about an honest New York cop who blew the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.” June 15: The Departed starring Matt Damon, [...]

The Harper Conservatives, with their new majority government, have promised to look to pass an “Omnibus” crime bill in the near future, which groups together 11 bills they couldn’t pass as a minority government. The bills generally look to increase prison populations and punitive measures. This is happening despite a significant majority of Canadians preferring [...]