the budget makes a choice between preventing vs reacting to harm Nov 9, 2022 the absurd thing to me was the VPD calling this all a SOCIAL SAFETY NET when its clearly the lack thereof that endangers everyone vancouver.citynews.ca/2022/11/09/v...

187 questions public safety of hyper militarized police. BIPOC don’t feel safe. 192: Tamiko Suzuki. Senior, owns home on west side. Devastated by this. Food security, green space, retrofits are concerns. Climate change just ramping up. Homeless increasing. Studies show basic needs bring down crime

K. I’m back. Speaker 186 says everyone she talks to us against this. Talks about how hard it is to register child in sports. Doesn’t have a yard. We will suffer from this. Only police won’t suffer. I live in DTES and never felt unsafe. Had to explain to kids why some people don’t have homes.

Another way to make your voice heard: Let City Council know you want them to reject VicPDs proposed 14% budget increase, including hiring 25 more officers. Put that money into the community supports and services that actually keep people safe! www.change.org/p/reject-vic... #yyj #DefundVicPD

This all sounds rather familiar. Policing culture is not one that embraces challenge, criticism, hard questions, equity and inclusion, or truth to power. The union will actively work to eliminate & undermine visible, vocal, and veracious challengers. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/... 1/

Another way to make your voice heard: Let City Council know you want them to reject VicPDs proposed 14% budget increase, including hiring 25 more officers. Put that money into the community supports and services that actually keep people safe! www.change.org/p/reject-vic... #yyj #DefundVicPD

if LOTS of people sign up to speak and go to city hall starting Wednesday, that will prevent council from making decisions on the budget since they are required to hear all the registered speakers first Sign up here council.vancouver.ca/20251112/spe...

Libraries are closed on Sundays. We say “No more!” to ever expanding police budgets! #DefundVicPD and support community services! #yyj Defundvicpd.org

Some of these things were put back into the budget by council... But discussion of the police budget is later this month. Write to Victoria council and your MLA using the respurces on our website: defundvicpd.org #yyj #DefundVicPD

Some of these things were put back into the budget by council... But discussion of the police budget is later this month. Write to Victoria council and your MLA using the respurces on our website: defundvicpd.org #yyj #DefundVicPD

“To pay for VicPD’s demands, the city is even looking at cutting a children’s book prize, and a poet laureate and youth poet laureate program that only costs $8,000 (keep in mind that VicPD spent $22,000 on a retirement party this year)” 🚨➡️ defundvicpd.org/2025/11/06/c... #yyj #DefundVicPD

Here's hoping both Esquimalt and Victoria push back hard this year. It's bonkers there's zero discussion of reducing the police budget & instead we have to worry about crime reduction measures like bike valet being cut

Street drugs have killed more than 18,600 BCers. DULF worked with cops, health authorities, feds to try and source, test and sell drugs with a known purity and potency to reduce overdose deaths. Their strategy was saving lives. Today they were found guilty of trafficking. thetyee.ca/News/2025/11...

Not just a cop trained in investigation, but the cop in charge of the investigation against DULF.

Cops respond to crime. The bike valet prevents it. But the city wants to stop paying for it so they can give VicPD more money! #yyj #yyjbike #DefundVicPD

The way it's just taken for granted that police budgets get to up by double-digit percentages every year while every other department has to go weeping to Council, hat in hand like Dickensian orphans, to justify their very existence, is wild. #yyj #VictoriaBC

They'll soon have the children's cop book prize and cop laureates. Layered policing all the way!

“To pay for VicPD’s demands, the city is even looking at cutting a children’s book prize, and a poet laureate and youth poet laureate program that only costs $8,000 (keep in mind that VicPD spent $22,000 on a retirement party this year)” 🚨➡️ defundvicpd.org/2025/11/06/c... #yyj #DefundVicPD

wtf are we doing here folks!? 🙃 #yyj #yyjpoli

Oh! Oh! We know #DefundVicPD and save our community grants and programs! Write #yyj council today using the resources on our website: defundvicpd.org/2026-draft-b...

Raeside gets it. Most people do! Why doesn’t city council and the province? #yyj #DefundVicPD www.timescolonist.com/opinion/adri...

"At least four people were killed by police in Canada in October 2025. This means that at least 76 people have been killed by cops so far this year." Canadian Police-Involved Deaths in October 2025 | The Media Co-op mediacoop.ca/node/119326

There are higher priorities for 50$million Vancouver tax dollars. Like, housing. And schools. And parks.

Some breaking news: in a special Vancouver Police Board meeting only announced over the weekend, the police board has requested a $50 million increase to their budget for 2026. This comes as other departments across the city are trying to cut staff to ensure a property tax freeze for next year.

Libraries are closed on Sundays. We say “No more!” to ever expanding police budgets! #DefundVicPD and support community services! #yyj Defundvicpd.org

If crime is way down, why are Canadians so afraid of crime? And what are politicians funnelling money into? My latest -- they are boosting policing to police us ... not keep us safe (unless you're rich, which trust me, you are not.) noraloreto.substack.com/p/the-big-cr...

In Greater Victoria, residents made 3.5 million visits to libraries in 2024. Yet, provincial funding for libraries has remained unchanged for 15 years. #DefundVicPD and fund our libraries - We dont need new money! www.timescolonist.com/opinion/comm... #yyj

the police are defunding us www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/daily-quo...

$22k for the VicPD to have a party. Is this why they’re asking for another $11M next year? More party money? We demand better! #DefundVicPD #yyj

Life-saving and life-affirming services and initiatives I care about are in funding crises. Learn more about the ever-increasing police budget in @victoria.ca. Compare police priorities with your vision for the world. Policing poverty & the consequences of punitive social policy is a choice.

It’s Sunday in #yyj and you know what that means - Libraries are closed. The VicPD is asking for another $11M this year while many services we rely on get reduced or cut. Write to the politicians and let them know you support #DefundVicPD! Resources on our website: defundvicpd.org/2026-draft-b...

For those living in communities without Defund PD campaigns, these kinds of budget inflations are happening everywhere, and we are losing invaluable services to fund them. Community based services make our world safer for everyone. More police is not what we need.

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Yes, if the Chief’s ask is approved it will result in a 52% increase in the police budget over 5 years. That’s a “significant lift”! What other services that Victorians rely on have seen such “lifts”?? #DefundVicPD #yyj

VicPD announced they’re asking for a $90 million budget next year, up $11 million, or 14%, from 2025. Compared to just five years ago, that’s a $31 million, 52% increase. Outrageous! #DefundVicPD What would you do for the community with an extra $11M? defundvicpd.org/2026-draft-b...

VicPD consulted on this budget with: a police-affiliated group; neighbourhood assoc's; and business reps. Concerns: “perceptions of crime” (crime is down); homelessness (not a crime); and how to jail more people sans convictions, a rightwing idea supported by police, the BC NDP and federal Liberals.

An additional thread to follow if you want to double your fun! bsky.app/profile/susa...

police need more police, police say

VicPD announced they’re asking for a $90 million budget next year, up $11 million, or 14%, from 2025. Compared to just five years ago, that’s a $31 million, 52% increase. Outrageous! #DefundVicPD What would you do for the community with an extra $11M? defundvicpd.org/2026-draft-b...

There’s a #yyj police board meeting at 5:00 pm. Will follow along. This is not the meeting to unveil their obscene, $91 million, 2026 budget ask. That’s tomorrow! This one is things like “whoops, we're over budget on OT.” vicpd.ca/wp-content/u... Stream: www.youtube.com/channel/UCKK... #vicpdboard 🧵

Want to help get out the word about #DefundVicPD? There are resources on our blog including flyers, zines and information about the big (and getting bigger) police budget defundvicpd.org/resources/ #yyj

The Victoria Police Board will be having its budget meeting this Wednesday at…the Union Club which is an exclusive club for the wealthy. That makes sense, when it comes to city money received, VicPD is the wealthiest! #DefundVicPD #yyj

"Critically challenging the police will lead us to discover some very difficult truths... one thing the police do consistently well is subjugate already marginalized communities. They interrupt the lives of Black, Indigenous, Latinx, brown, poor, queer, trans, and disabled people with regularity."

@sandela.bsky.social I was born and raised in a police family. As a law teacher, at the beginning I had a very biased view. Listening to your podcast and now this amazing book, makes us all realize the abolishinist argument as not only valid, but also the most logical. Thank you so much!

Apparently the police board set itself a challenge of finding an even less welcoming venue for public meetings than VicPD HQ. They’re doing the work!

The Victoria Police Board will be having its budget meeting this Wednesday at…the Union Club which is an exclusive club for the wealthy. That makes sense, when it comes to city money received, VicPD is the wealthiest! #DefundVicPD #yyj

VicPD account for 23% or nearly one quarter of the City budget! If you can believe it that’s more than all of the following *combined* 🌲Parks 🚒Fire Dept 📚Libraries 💟Non-profit grants 📈Housing targets 💃Arts/culture and events 🏠Affordable housing grants #DefundVicPD

And we say no police in Victoria schools: defundvicpd.org/2025/10/13/v... #DefundVicpd #yyj

Layered policing to expand police reach, control, and power. "It is about further funneling money into policing and carceral [prison] measures and taking money away from education and the well-being of students, educators and school communities." www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

VicPD account for 23% or nearly one quarter of the City budget! If you can believe it that’s more than all of the following *combined* 🌲Parks 🚒Fire Dept 📚Libraries 💟Non-profit grants 📈Housing targets 💃Arts/culture and events 🏠Affordable housing grants #DefundVicPD