Policing and Poverty Media Stories

Poverty: unacceptable [coverage of the RHA’s Jamming Unacceptable campaign] (Simon Nattrass, Monday Magazine, April 3, 2013)

Grassroots Cop-watch [on current CAP on Discrimination and Affifavit projects to address social profiling] (Simon Nattrass, Focus Magazine, April 2013)

Safer for All – community power to end the criminalization of poverty in Victoria (Ashley Mollison & Mark Willson, Streetnewz, August 2012) [p.7]

Winds of Change (CFUV) interview with Ashley Mollison, VIPIRG Coordinating Committee member & Safer for All campaign organizer (Ashley Mollison, CFUV, May 24, 2012)

David Eby, President of BC Civil Liberties Association, on the Safer for All campaign in Victoria (David Eby, CFAX, May 14, 2012)

Ending Discrimination Against People Living in Poverty: An Update on the Safer for All Campaign (Mark Willson, Streetnewz, May 2012) [p.7]

Social Profiling and the Policing of Poverty (Mark Willson, Streetnewz, March 2012) [p.3]

People First Radio interview with Mark Willson (Mark Willson, People First Radio, March 8, 2012)

Social profiling in Victoria: What’s wrong with this picture?  (Gordon O’Connor, rabble.ca, March 7, 2012)

Policing Poverty in Victoria (Gordon O’Connor, Focus Magazine, March, 2012)

Vancouver Coop Radio interview with Mark Willson, Research Coordinator (Mark Willson, Vancouver Coop Radio, Feb 25, 2012)

CFAX interview with Seb Bonet, VIPIRG Coordinating Committee member (Seb Bonet, CFAX, Feb. 16 2012)

Police Tactics Making Victoria Unsafe for Homeless People (Gordon O’Connor, Georgia Straight, Feb 2, 2012)

Policing Away Poverty Doesn’t Work (Simon Nattrass, Monday Magazine, Feb 1, 2012)