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November 13, 2025 at 6:21 AM
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it is true that the police lie
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That’s been the strategy since 2006, when the agency recognized sending police to respond to overdose calls could deter people from calling for help during an emergency, VPD spokesperson Sgt. Steve Addison told The Tyee in an email. However, Police Oversight with Evidence and Research, or POWER, has reported how some officers in the Downtown Eastside have gotten in the way of harm reduction workers administering naloxone or first aid. POWER is a research project founded in 2024 by the Vancouver Area Network of Drug Users and the Western Aboriginal Harm Reduction Society. Academic studies have also found knowledge of the Good Samaritan act varies widely among police officers, simple possession is still used by police as an enforcement tool, and police are confiscating drugs without arresting people.
November 6, 2025 at 8:54 PM
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"Street sweeps:" The municipal government-enforced confiscation of personal belongings among unstably housed people who use drugs in Vancouver:

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Original Research “Street sweeps”: The municipal government-enforced confiscation of personal belongings among unstably housed people who use drugs in Vancouver, Canada
September 3, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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join us for an evening of solidarity with our friends at Stop the Stack YYC. Sept 1 2025 | 5pm pst

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August 24, 2025 at 9:31 PM
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look at this rot
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In April, police spokesperson Sgt. Steve Addison wrote to Deputy Chief Howard Chow and offered him a thread of posts he’d composed for Twitter, now the X platform, highlighting nine stranger attacks that had resulted in arrests. There was a visually impaired senior who was punched in the stomach, a woman who was stabbed in the leg with a hypodermic needle. “If you want it, we can help post it to your account,” Addison told Chow. “Good talking points, if nothing else.”
August 21, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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August 31. 12pm-3pm at Oppenheimer Celebration of life for Elder Clint & 3pm-6pm block party 300 block hastings
poster for international overdose awareness day - 12-3 oppenheimer for celebration of life for Elder Clint & 3p-6p block party 300 block hastings - logos for power, WAHRS, VANDU & CPDDW
August 11, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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seeking witnesses to an alleged violent arrest by vpd officers - july 23 at night - where: cheese slap restaurant (925 Granville, Vancouver, BC) see something? email power@vandu.org
August 4, 2025 at 5:05 PM
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involuntary treatment expansion was never about care, compassion or safety

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“This is another way to criminalize Indigenous people, we know the jails are already full of my Indigenous kin. This is the continuation of a colonial framework to keep Indigenous people below the poverty line, criminalized and oppressed.” - Sparkling Fast Rising River Woman Elder Mona Woodward, Board of Directors, Surrey Union of Drug Users, Cree, Lakota-Sioux and Saulteaux from Kawacatoose First Nation
May 17, 2025 at 6:25 AM
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April 18, 2025 at 3:02 AM
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destabilizing the supply with no plans to support the people who rely on it
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Review A scoping review of law enforcement drug seizures and overdose mortality in the United States
April 10, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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April 5, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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Jackie has supported our fledgling crew by capturing some of our origins 🙏🏼
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truth-telling early days of a police oversight project through a media fog P.O.W.E.R JUL 30, 2024
March 28, 2025 at 9:45 PM
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BC NDP Kill Already Limited Safer Supply Program

BC NDP know their witnessed safe supply policy will be fatal, but pursue it as they cave to right-wing rhetoric

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white block text on red and black background: BC NDP Kill Already Limited Safer Supply Program BC NDP know their witnessed safe supply policy will be fatal, but pursue it as they cave to right-wing rhetoric: Statement Read here: https://www.policeoversight.ca/p/bc-ndp-kill-already-limited-safer
March 7, 2025 at 3:04 PM
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december 11
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December 7, 2024 at 6:21 AM