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@VPDCommsFake

Official Twitter account of fake Vancouver Police Department content. CW: police violence

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Defund 604@defund6048 Jun 2022
OMG! Someone call the #vpd and the #npa !!! They’re selling GUNS at dollarama on Hastings! Big nozzle GUNS!! 😱😱😱
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SEAN ORR@seanorr8 Jun 2022
🌾🌾🌾This is Out of Control! 🤢 who is RESPONSIBLE for this? 👀 is this how we welcome the world???🚫 @kennedystewart @JohnCCoupar @inner_cityfarms #taxdollars #lawnorder
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Defund 604@defund60425 May 2022
One #VPD officer fist-bumps VPD Officer #3275 Thompson after she tazes this person. While there’s lots of talk about random attacks and stranger violence in this city, virtually none of the public discourse acknowledges that cops are a major perpetrator of hate crimes – at Vancouver, British Columbia
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Defund 604@defund60425 May 2022
CN. Anti-homeless violence at the hands of the #VPD. This disturbing video has been shared with us. It depicts multiple police officers assaulting and tasseling an unhoused, unarmed person in so-called Vancouver. – at Vancouver, British Columbia
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Defund 604@defund60420 Apr 2022
shameful. what will Melissa de Jurisdiction try to pull off next?
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Stephen Harrison@step_harrison16 Mar 2022
Apropos of Vancouver PD being awarded $5.7 million in funding, here are 2016-20 stats on their officers punching and kicking people ("physical control hard"). #VPD says the stats on police beatings look they went up in part because they improved their record keeping. #bcpoli
Screenshot of a vertical bar graph, title "Physical Control Hard Used Totals by Year (2016 to 2020) shows incidents going up for Vancouver Police. 2016: 422; 2017: 466; 2018: 547; 2019: 873; 2020: 1061. Text below reads: The Subject Behaviour Officer Response {SBORR) is a provincially mandated requirement. Starting in 2017 the VPD increased SBORR education and training to alert members of provincial reporting requirements. Members received training to report their use of force not only in their text pages of police reports, but also in the SBORR template. This likely increased the number of incidents that were documented in SBORR reports, which contributed to the apparent uptrend in use of force statistics. The education and update of members within the VPD on SBORR thresholds and need to record use of force in the template took approximately 2 years due to the large size of the department. These statistics are expected to plateau with training completion.

ALT Screenshot of a vertical bar graph, title "Physical Control Hard Used Totals by Year (2016 to 2020) shows incidents going up for Vancouver Police. 2016: 422; 2017: 466; 2018: 547; 2019: 873; 2020: 1061. Text below reads: The Subject Behaviour Officer Response {SBORR) is a provincially mandated requirement. Starting in 2017 the VPD increased SBORR education and training to alert members of provincial reporting requirements. Members received training to report their use of force not only in their text pages of police reports, but also in the SBORR template. This likely increased the number of incidents that were documented in SBORR reports, which contributed to the apparent uptrend in use of force statistics. The education and update of members within the VPD on SBORR thresholds and need to record use of force in the template took approximately 2 years due to the large size of the department. These statistics are expected to plateau with training completion.

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We thank Mayor Kennedy "Fund Them" Stewart for his continued support of the the #Vancouver Police Department. We too are glad the conversation about increasing funding for police "is over." Now we can get back to the business of criminalizing poverty, homelessness & drug use.
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Cops out of Schools@nocopsinschools8 May 2021
Needless and hypocritical fear mongering from police union head, Ralph Kaiser. Calling 911 is standard emergency procedure with or without a SLO present in a school! This clause in the MOU can be found on page 90 of this doc: vsb.bc.ca/.../SLOProgramRepo…
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Do you have what it takes to be VPD? •can you run obstacle courses? •jump? •climb stairs? •lift things? •attack people in the DTES? If you answered yes, maybe you could make a career out of police brutality at the VPD! CW: police assault #Vancouver
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Pivot Legal Society@pivotlegal9 Mar 2022
While communities impacted by police violence are calling to #DefundThePolice, one of the @VPD's recent recruitment videos drew public ire and criticism for promoting a hyper-militarized & violent police force to potential recruits. cbc.ca/news/canada/british-c…

Concerns remain after Vancouver police recruitment video deleted | CBC News

A Vancouver Police Department recruitment video taken down in response to criticism of its militarized, "Hollywood" vision of policing has left behind some lingering concerns.

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Vancouver Police demonstrated their comfort with violent police imagery in a now taken down video (see below). Here's a recruitment video from 2007 that demonstrates a shift in how police present themselves (& the cozy relationship btw pro sports & cops). Aren't cops cute?
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Yesterday's recruitment video showcased the military and tactical aggressiveness of the VPD. This one hides the reality of policing by showcasing the job as riding horses, hanging out with dogs and going on boats. All copaganda is sinister. Guns or no guns.
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Taken down video for context.
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Democratic Socialists of Vancouver@demsocsyvr1 Mar 2022
A reminder that "Sorry if you were offended" is not an actual apology, just like "reforming the police" does not actually reduce harm. We have to defund them and reallocate their budget. #vanpoli #DefundTheVDP
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In case anyone missed what they're talking about, here's the video that was "upsetting for some, particularly during current world events" and others have called "more proof the VPD is a violent colonial occupation force." This is who we are. #Vancouver #theplacetobe
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