SPCW is a member of the Police Accountability Coalition and helped develop the briefing document below:

• Community Organizations Call for Police Accountability and the Reallocation of Resources – Endorsements – Updated November 25, 2021
• PAC Media Release: Media Release by PAC – September 24, 2020
• 23 Things We Can Do To Increase Police Accountability – PAC Poster

 

Positions & Policies:

• Executive Policy Committee- Body Worn Camera_ June 16th 2021
• A Few Bad Apples
• PAC’s letter to WSD 1 Board Chair Re.: School Resource Officers – Feb 19th, 2021
• PAC’s Letter to WSD 1 Board Chair Re.: School Resource Officers and WSD 1 Budget Allocation – Feb 11, 2021
• Presentations to WSD 1 School Trustee meetings:
  • Monday, Nov 16^th, 2020: https://winnipegsdca.civicweb.net/document/49638?splitscreen=true&media=true
  • Monday, Nov 2^nd, 2020: https://winnipegsdca.civicweb.net/document/49349?splitscreen=true&media=true
  • Monday, Oct 19^th, 2020: https://winnipegsdca.civicweb.net/document/48885?splitscreen=true&media=true
• Presentations to Winnipeg Police Board – Sept 24th, 2020: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_ywT9AUkAg&feature=youtu.be

 

Policy Updates:

• Winnipeg school division moves police out of schools – October 12, 2021
• Another school division ends program with Winnipeg police in schools – October 6, 2021
• School division in Winnipeg ending program that brings police officers into school – October 6, 2021

• Winnipeg School Division budget cuts police from schools ‘solely for financial reasons’ – March 9, 2021

 

Resources:

• Independent information from CBC on fatal police encounters
• The City of Toronto is doing some pretty progressive defunding work under the leadership of Denise Campbell
• Letter Writing Toolkit: Police Accountability and the Reallocation of Resources – Updated March 2021
• Manitoba Justice Minister’s Announcement of the Police Act Report – November 5, 2020
• Independent Review of the Police Act – September 2020

 

PAC Newsletters:

• PAC Newsletter – March 2021

 

PAC in the Media:

To learn more about PAC, please review the information below and see what we have been up to!

• CBC News: Community advocates react to new mental health police pilot project  (November 30th, 2021)
• CBC News: 30 years after the Aboriginal Justice Inquiry report, tensions still high between Indigenous people and the police (November 30th, 2021)
• CBC News: Winnipeg School Division budget cuts police from schools ‘solely for financial reasons’ (March 9th, 2021)
• Global News: Winnipeg police board sees calls for budget cuts, policy changes (Sept 24th, 2020)
• CBC News: Winnipeg Police Board hears allegations of racial profiling, checkstops (Sept 24th, 2020)
• Winnipeg Free Press: Community coalition calls for redirection of slice of police budget (Sept 24th, 2020)

 

If you would like more information about PAC or how to join this coalition, please contact PAC.WpgMB@gmail.com