The Northern Junk development proposal includes defensive architecture and promotes its tenants’ ability to surveil Reeson Park as a “crime prevention through environmental design” benefit to meet city requirements.
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FOI records show internal VicPD debate on the “thin blue line” symbol.
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Internally, Chief Manak criticized the idea that social workers could deescalate a conflict. They can, and they do.
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Given that the board is preparing to welcome VicPD’s school liaison officers back into SD61 schools, it’s incumbent on the board to understand the effects police have on students’ lives.
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Needs More Spikes’ defensive architecture tour wraps up this week, starting with Oak Bay.
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Part one of a defensive architecture tour of the CRD.
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An FOI shows VicPD dreams of a “steady blue light pilot,” to have lights on their cars all the time so people feel like they’re being watched.
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Over a decade of data obtained from B.C.’s municipal police departments through Freedom of Information requests show the departments disproportionately street check Indigenous and Black people.
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VicPD’s draft 2020 budget includes the “Potential return of the School Resource Officers,” and it’s time those with power over the program started asking why the police are allowed anywhere near the public school system.
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Victoria City Council is considering a report about whether one of the Pandora Avenue fences will stay up, because they think it might be too tall and too spiky. No matter what size it is, it won’t change its intent.
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In February, the principal of Vic High responded to a complaint about drug use in Spring Ridge Commons by telling his colleagues the Commons was “a cesspool.” Later that same week, SD61 began a months-long project to remove furniture and seating in the Commons, to displace homeless people and people who use drugs.
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Nobody loves defensive architecture quite like Fort Street. Outside of business hours, locked gates shut off empty alcoves, blocking sheltered and semi-private spaces from people who might otherwise use them overnight.
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