Homelessness and Police Brutality
Submitted on June 27, 2011
By Karen Lahey / DTES Power of Women Group - Vancouver Media Co-op
I have lost faith in the police. I fear that if I ever needed them to help me, they would turn on me instead. They do little to protect against actual violence, like all the murdered and missing women. Instead, they are violent towards us, frequently arresting people for minor things like jaywalking, or harassing people who are just standing on the street...I imagine a Downtown Eastside where we are free from the arbitrary beatings and the brutality of the Vancouver Police Department...
