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“For three years the DTES community has fought an ongoing campaign to end the discriminatory ticketing of low-income people. Last year 95% of all vending tickets and 76% of all jaywalking tickets across the city were handed out in the Downtown Eastside. In response VANDU and Pivot Legal Society filed an official complaint with the VPD. The complaint was officially dismissed by the Mayor and police board in September 2013.

An independent police watchdog, the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner, has rejected the reasons given by the Vancouver Mayor and Police Department for dismissing the complaint of discriminatory by-law enforcement in the Downtown Eastside. Since then VANDU has requested a meeting with the Mayor on this important issue, but he has refused to respond. We have no other choice to but to march for justice.”

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<a href="https://themainlander.com/?attachment_id=7896" rel="attachment wp-att-7896"><img class="aligncenter size-large wp-image-7896" alt="HNJ_Dec17_2 copy" src="https://themainlander.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/12/HNJ_Dec17_2-copy-550x905.jpg" width="550" height="905" /></a> <p>"For three years the DTES community has fought an ongoing campaign to end the discriminatory ticketing of low-income people. Last year 95% of all vending tickets and 76% of all jaywalking tickets across the city were handed out in the Downtown Eastside. In response VANDU and Pivot Legal Society filed an official complaint with the VPD. The complaint was officially dismissed by the Mayor and police board in September 2013. <p>An independent police watchdog, the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner, has <a href="https://themainlander.com/2013/12/05/gregor-robertson-and-vpd-decision-to-continue-discriminatory-ticketing-rejected-by-police-complaint-commissioner/" target="_blank">rejected</a> the reasons given by the Vancouver Mayor and Police Department for dismissing the complaint of discriminatory by-law enforcement in the Downtown Eastside. Since then VANDU has requested a meeting with the Mayor on this important issue, but he has refused to respond. We have no other choice to but to march for justice."

“For three years the DTES community has fought an ongoing campaign to end the discriminatory ticketing of low-income  people. Last year 95% of all vending tickets and 76% of all jaywalking tickets across the city were handed out in the  Downtown Eastside. In response VANDU and Pivot Legal Society filed an official complaint with the VPD. The complaint was officially dismissed by the Mayor and police board in September 2013.

An independent police watchdog, the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner, has rejected the reasons given by  the Vancouver Mayor and Police Department for dismissing the complaint of discriminatory by-law enforcement in the Downtown Eastside. Since then VANDU has requested a meeting with the Mayor on this important issue, but he has  refused to respond. We have no other choice to but to march for justice.”

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