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From: Mark Willson <vipirgr...@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Apr 24, 2012 at 9:05 AM
Subject: On the Radar (panel on police accountability, May 12, 7pm)
To: safer-...@vipirg.ca

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On the Radar

MAY 12, 7-9pm

First Metropolitan Church

932 Balmoral Road

a Panel Discussion on

Social Profiling, Police Accountability, and Community Oversight

Speakers:

David Eby (BC Civil Liberties Association)

Hilary Marks (Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group)

Ashley Mollison (Safer for All campaign)

People living in extreme poverty face disproportionate amounts of police attention in the form of ticketing, searches, stops, and seizures of personal property -- this is called social profiling, and communities across Canada are working together to see this stopped.

Interactions between police and people who are street-involved remain invisible because many of these interactions are undocumented by police, and marginalized community members lack access to reporting mechanisms such as the police complaints commission. It's time for us to put these practices on the radar.

Come and hear about police accountability issues in BC, about actions taken in other Canadian regions to address social profiling of people who are street-involved, and about community initiatives to ensure community oversight of policing practices.

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Mark Willson
Research Coordinator
Vancouver Island Public Interest Research Group (VIPIRG)

Phone: (250) 472-4386
Email: rese...@vipirg.ca
Web: www.vipirg.ca
Office: UVic student union building room B122
Mail: PO Box 3035 Stn CSC, Victoria, BC, Lekwungen & WSANEC Territories, V8W 3P3

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Zoë Macmillan
Barrister & Solicitor
VIHRC Advocate

Vancouver Island Human Rights Coalition
418-620 View Street, Victoria, BC
Coast Salish Territories, V8W 1J6
Tel. (250) 382-3012 Fax (250) 380-7311
http://vihrc.org

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