• The City of Vancouver must redirect financial resources from the Vancouver Police Department towards initiatives that demonstrably support long-term community safety. This includes child care support, education, comprehensive mental health intervention and social support, local restorative justice services, employment programs, access to recreational facilities, community-directed public investment, peer-based programming, culturally-led policies and more.

 

  • The City of Vancouver must commit to improving social conditions across the city with a commitment to the goal of eventually abolishing police and prisons, as they serve the primary purpose of oppressing marginalized communities and protecting the riches of the wealthy minority of denizens.

 

  • The City of Vancouver must condemn the actions taken by colonial police forces with respect to silencing and violently suppressing Black voices and demands for systemic change.

 

  • The City of Vancouver must address the past and current harms that the destruction of the Hogan’s Alley neighbourhood has caused to Black and Indigenous people and other marginalised communities of Colour.

 

  • The City of Vancouver must follow through with its policy to redress the past displacement of Vancouver’s only Black neighbourhood by enabling the establishment of a Black-led non-profit community land trust on the former Hogan’s Alley block within the Northeast False Creek area.

 

  • The Vancouver Pride Society must cut ties with the Vancouver Police Department, and exclude all police officers (in and out of uniform) from participation in the Pride Parade itself in any official capacity.

 

  • The Vancouver Police Department must demilitarise, and make a commitment to work towards officers not carrying firearms.

 

  • The Vancouver Police Department must undergo an upheaval in the manner in which it collects and reports data from arrests/police interactions with civilians to be more thorough and transparent. We need accurate numbers for our missing and murdered trans sisters and brothers.

 

  • The B.C. Association of Chiefs of Police and the Ministry of Public Safety and Solicitor General’s Police Services Division must strip the awards of valour given to Constables Ann Fontaine, Albert Lu and Greg Parkes for their involvement in the killing of Abdi Gani Mahamud Hirsi

 

  • The Vancouver School Board must acknowledge its dismissal of several incidents of blatant anti-Black racism including hate speech and systemic practices, and commit to an anti-racism policy in collaboration with Black and Indigenous community organizations.