Ian Mulgrew: By bartering police votes to the candidate offering the most, VPD chief Adam Palmer makes great case for regionalized policing
The leader of a Cadillac police force listed more than a half-dozen studies of the Downtown Eastside before bragging that his new report, secretly prepared by Alberta consultants, for the first time proposes a way to solve the neighbourhood’s intractable poverty, addiction and homelessness.
There was a lot of rhetoric about implementing such policies but they were never fully embraced, and certainly not by the VPD or most of province’s legal community.People who shouldn’t be in court because of their mental health problems or other challenges continue going through expensive legal hoops, yet there are no adequate treatment, housing or support services. The police budget has also simply grown and grown.
Undercover officers target the indigent and vulnerable who deal minuscule amounts of drugs to feed their own habit. The Alberta firm she co-founded — HelpSeeker Technologies — charged $149,000 for the 81-page report, Igniting Transformational Systems Change Through Policing.
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