Winnipeg Copwatch

  Check out this remake of N.W.A.’s F*** the Police: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hyT1buoyTnY&feature=youtu.be  

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 [...]

On January 1st John Kurtz of Orlando, Florida, videotaped a police incident that “included the use of tasers, a violent take down, and a pepper spraying after the suspect was subdued and in handcuffs.” After asserting his right to witness the incident, he was arrested by an officer who is “one of the top taser [...]

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 [...]