Juno News - July 07, 2020


Street checks and carding is not racist


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The BC Civil Liberties Association and Black Lives Matter Vancouver have called for the Vancouver Police Department to end the practice of "carding" or street checks because they are racist and illegal. In other words, all of the usual suspects.

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00:00:00.000 The BC Civil Liberties Association issued a press release on Monday calling for the
00:00:10.240 Vancouver Police Board to order the Vancouver Department to end the practice of carding or
00:00:15.960 street checks because they're racist and illegal according to the BCCLA. In an open letter to the
00:00:23.880 city of Vancouver they said quote we are writing to you to put actions to your words and take
00:00:29.820 immediate action to address systemic discrimination in policing by ending all street checks in
00:00:37.140 Vancouver and BC. Street checks are harmful and discriminatory for indigenous black and low-income
00:00:46.200 communities. Street checks also have no basis in law and you have the powers to ban them
00:00:53.380 unquote. They issued this open letter in conjunction with Black Lives Matter Vancouver and a litany of
00:01:02.320 other left-wing groups. In other words all of the usual suspects. Taking away a proactive tool of
00:01:12.280 street policing is patently foolish but we've seen this in other jurisdictions. John Tory, Mayor of
00:01:19.280 Toronto, eliminated carding and Tavis, the Toronto violence intervention strategy which was a proactive
00:01:26.840 squad of police officers tasked with deploying to troubled areas anywhere in the city and deal with
00:01:34.960 the problems as they found them. It was massively effective. In the intervening years since shootings
00:01:42.960 and gun crime in Toronto has risen exponentially. This year there have been 220 shooting incidents in the city
00:01:51.580 with 96 persons killed or wounded. An 18 percent increase year over year. In New York City, a month after
00:02:01.120 disbanding the plainclothes anti-crime unit which was designed to halt gang and gun crime, shootings in just 10
00:02:08.780 in precincts are up 205 percent. The VPD has already been forced to absorb a 1.8 million dollar budget cut and is
00:02:18.100 trying to do that without adversely affecting service to the citizens of the city. And now the BCCLA want them to
00:02:26.100 stop doing anything but what? Respond to 911 calls? This is foolish and dangerous. And what would any discussion about the
00:02:35.200 nonsense of the left be without pointing out their inevitable hypocrisy? The BCCLA took great pains to point out how
00:02:44.880 Indigenous women were particularly overrepresented in street check data. So the police are taking pains, apparently, to check
00:02:52.940 Indigenous women on the downtown streets and ensure their safety and well-being. It wasn't that long ago, the VPD were being 0.99
00:03:01.460 criticized by the same groups for not caring about Indigenous women in the wake of the Robert Pickton
00:03:08.260 serial killings of Indigenous women, primarily sex trade workers in the downtown east side of Vancouver.
00:03:16.980 Where the police are now going out of their way to keep track of them and somehow that is now drawing fire.
00:03:25.460 Using stats saying Indigenous folks are overrepresented in the street checks,
00:03:30.500 given their percentage of the overall population, is one thing, and that may be true. But in the downtown
00:03:37.540 east side, Indigenous people make up the majority of the population and the pedestrian traffic on the
00:03:43.780 drug-fueled streets. VPD chief Adam Palmer has demonstrated unique skills in navigating the political
00:03:52.420 landscape with the left-wing mayor and council. I hope he digs in firm on this issue and says no.
00:03:59.860 The BCCLA and the rest of the poverty pimps need to be told the police will do their jobs as they see fit,
00:04:08.100 and that it's their call. Period. For True North, I'm Leo Knight.