Features

In solidarity with sex workers interrupting criminalization

'SWIFA' has come together in response to intensified policing

Apr 16 • P.O.W.E.R

Vancouver’s Cop City Budget

Next year’s municipal budget is set to allocate half a billion dollars toward policing.

Nov 11, 2025 • P.O.W.E.R

Prince George prepares to displace residents of Moccasin Flats

The city apologized for the harms caused by dismantling people’s homes at Moccasin Flats in 2022. Now they plan to dismantle it again.

Oct 24, 2025

Jeremy Omand of the Gastown Residents Association appears to grab, force person to the ground in video

Omand, whose actions are described by one resident as 'vigilantism,' is on the advisory committee for the forthcoming Gastown community policing centre

May 27, 2025

Atira is suing two residents for tragic Winters Hotel fire

Legal challenge indicative of competing interests within Vancouver’s nonprofit housing industry

May 20, 2025

Kelowna or Hastings, decampments are a death sentence

Police Oversight with Evidence and Research (P.O.W.E.R.) and Stop the Sweeps condemn Kelowna OS4 decampment

Apr 4, 2025 • P.O.W.E.R

“If a cop is around when an overdose is happening, it is never a safe situation”

P.O.W.E.R. examines reported trend of Vancouver Police interfering in street-level health response

Aug 31, 2024 • P.O.W.E.R

early days of a police oversight project through a media fog

Jul 31, 2024 • P.O.W.E.R

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