you will find increased police surveillance, police power and police budgets
06.03.2026 21:38
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you will find increased police surveillance, police power and police budgets
While it’s easy to believe body-worn cameras will increase police accountability, in practice they only entrench police power. They selectively withhold video when it helps them and turn them off to cover up their harms. No political body can be trusted to rein in this behaviour. See our handout.
“The only way to reduce police violence is to reduce police power. If body cams reduced police power, WPS would be the first to oppose them.” If you look to other jurisdictions where police wear cameras, you’ll find no evidence of reduced violence.
While it’s easy to believe body-worn cameras will increase police accountability, in practice they only entrench police power. They selectively withhold video when it helps them and turn them off to cover up their harms. No political body can be trusted to rein in this behaviour. See our handout.
Winnipeg to test lipstick on a pig, and approve yet another massive police budget increase once it proves to be an overwhelming success at consolidating police impunity
A poster for a free documentary screening of No Visible Trauma. “Who is responsible for holding the police accountable? No Visible Trauma exposes the Calgary Police Service's abuse of power and discusses the experiences of three individuals and their loved ones' ongoing fight for justice.” When: Tuesday, March 10th, 6:30 PM - 9:30 PM Where: Prairie Theatre Exchange, 393 Portage Ave. #300 Admission: By donation Doors 6PM Film 6:30 PM Community Discussion 8:30 PM Mask-required event Wheelchair-accessible venue Snacks, drinks, and masks provided There are the logos for WPCH and U of M Centre for Human Rights Research and a QR code.
WPCH and U of M Centre for Human Rights Research are hosting a free screening of No Visible Trauma on Tuesday, March 10, 6:30pm at Prairie Theatre Exchange, RSVP at www.eventbrite.ca/e/free-film-...
Is it standard journalist practice to only interview police and apologists for a story like this? (Notice Cormier’s “we” identification)
Police always demand more gear, more money, more training but their violence is ceaseless. What prevents their murderous tyranny is reduced contact with people.
I was back in court today for the Eishia Hudson inquest, and it's bothering me that Winnipeg Police counsel was not pronouncing Eishia's name correctly. Such a simple sign of respect is too much to give an Indigenous youth, even in death.
I wonder if the Free Press will report the testimony of Renee Good’s killers in this way
“Dreger told the inquest that liquor store thefts at the time were heightened and sometimes resulted in violence against employees and bystanders.”
Implication: therefore, murdering Eishia Hudson was justified.
Don’t believe their lies
They admit it every time they call one of "the bad ones" a "bad apple." Yes, that's the point of the saying: one bad apple ruins the whole bunch.
Daddy Killingham makes a waffling comment that this should enhance our trust: “the vast, vast majority, almost all of our police officers, I believe, are good men and women”
Pursaga ends with this: “Bostock was on the force for more than 20 years before he was charged and eventually fired.”
New levels of impunity—like those the admin is trying to establish after these ICE executions — is alarming and ought to be opposed! But don’t forget that even when police ARE investigated, impunity is still the norm. consequences are highly rare. Taking away power and funding far more impactful
Training will never address the violence at the heart of policing. ICE is policing. The abolition of organized state violence is a fundamental necessity for any emancipatory path forward.
Extrajudicial police killings are not an anomaly, they’re part of how policing functions. @harshawalia.bsky.social is sharing excellent analysis, as always.
#AbolishICE #AbolishThePolice #AbolishTheRCMP #AbolishCBSA
This does nothing to end police impunity, and in fact shores up the reputation of the Winnipeg Police through the misguided “bad apples” paradigm. Policing is the problem, not individual actors.
This chipper commentary does a disservice to people harmed by Winnipeg Police, or died by their actions, and Bike Winnipeg’s Mark Cohoe calls it “a nice idea”.
But why not ask: what happened to the bicycle unit that hounded Critical Mass out of existence years ago? Cohoe should know this history.
Police “Reforms” You Should Always Oppose — @prisonculture.bsky.social
lmao. see, people hate on "defund the police" because both political parties dragged it, but they still support what it actually means
Remember when Matt Wiebe promised "These new (officers) will reduce demands on police resources and will significantly improve (the) ability to stop dangerous people from hurting Manitobans"?
Spending on criminalization only leads to more spending on criminalization.
Our response to this copaganda should always be the same: how will locking someone in a cell, subjecting them to increased violence and isolation, and further undermining their access to employment and housing when they're released help to prevent harm from reoccurring?
It's the same as his new data-free pet project around making bail even harder to get. The entire issue of "repeat offenders" is clear evidence that criminalization doesn't address the fundamental issues contributing to harms. Instead, it often makes them even worse.
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Remember when Gillingham assured us all that his new security team was going to somehow fix issues of transit safety?
Once again, its the WPS and its already gigantic budget ($353M in 2025, $370M in 2026) that benefits from the catastrophic failures of criminalization.
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Here's our blog post from June 2024 about the actual activities of the "Community Safety Team"
winnipegpolicecauseharm.org/blog/transit...
Of COURSE Gillingham's "Community Safety Team" is being weaponized for fare enforcement. This was never about community safety - and steals money that could be used to actually improve it (including through improving transit service).
www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews...
"the knives were found in a location that fit with WO1’s evidence that she moved them away when the AP was on the ground. While this evidence does not directly confirm her evidence on this point, it is some evidence tending to support that the AP ran at them, as WO1 said."
Really convincing....
The report also mentions that after shooting Afolabi three times, they handcuffed him and "began to check him for injuries."
They handcuffed him. After shooting him.
The scene presented in the ASIRT report doesn't line up. The first shot (marker 1) was fired when Afolabi was at least 15 ft away (marker 5). The knives were found on the other side of the unit (marker 7). The partner claims she "moved the knives away."
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Another killer cop exonerated, entirely based on the account of his partner.
The killer didn't speak to investigators or provide notes/reports, which ASIRT described as his "right of silence." Afolabi was afford no rights at all. He was executed within seconds.
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