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Pivot: Too many tickets handed out in Downtown Eastside
VANCOUVER/CKNW (AM980)

3/5/2013

People in the Downtown East Side feel they are getting ticketed more than everyone else.


Residents as well as Pivot Legal Society are challenging Vancouver Police on the way hand out by-law tickets.


Pivot says 95 percent of some tickets are being handed out exclusively in the area.


Douglas King says this sort of ticketing wouldn't happen in any other part of the city.

"It's the type of behaviour that I think is only seen as acceptable in the Downtown Eastside because you're dealing with marginalized people. If they were enforcing bylaws this way  in any other neighborhood, they would never be able to get away with it and that to me is the heart of discriminatory policing."

The complaint comes in the wake of the final report from the Missing Womens Inquiry, which made a recommendation that police should limit the enforcement of minor offences.

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  1. MikeD_5831 posted on 03/05/2013 04:34 PM
    So...if you're a resident in the DTES, you should get a free pass on everything???
    How about this...the VPD can stay out of the DTES, concentrating on law enforcement in other areas of the city, and Pivot can patrol the area instead?
  2. UnemployedinBC posted on 03/05/2013 04:55 PM
    I would like to know what the tickets are for. That being said it is my experience that human beings for the most part are bullies and lazy mostly going for low hanging fruit. And yes police are human too. so what would you expect, bully those who have no legal way to fight back.
    Pick on someone else for a change.
  3. KellyS_2296 posted on 03/05/2013 05:59 PM
    Right, this is the same area where they lowered the speed limit for vehicles because there was so much jay walking going on... give me a break PIVOT.
  4. RobJ_6 posted on 03/05/2013 06:28 PM
    Geez - I wonder if it has anything to do with 95% of the infractions happen there? (Tongue in cheek). Anyway, I will bet that 100% of those tickets are never paid anyway. I also think Mr. King needs to get out of the DTES once in awhile to see how others live and behave.
    1. P.D posted on 03/06/2013 09:49 AM
      @RobJ_6 95% exactly! where else is this crap going on!
  5. BCSkulker posted on 03/05/2013 08:17 PM
    When lawless people start being held accountable or punished (i.e. tickets) for their behaviour, screaming discrimination is a typical reaction. The hope is the gutless ones will back away.

    Has anyone been in this area of town lately. Let's see open drug dealing, prostitution, dope smoking (it is still illegal), jay walking, a total disregard for others, defecate where you want, B&E's, etc. Vancouver you should be proud of allowing this in your city. Of course it's their right isn't it. How about the rights of those that have to put up with this in their neighborhood. Personally I like NY's ex-mayor who cracked down on this in his city. Try it Vancouver, you might like it.
  6. lg_3045 posted on 03/06/2013 07:08 AM
    really, its a big surprise that there is a lot of illegal stuff happening there, thus more tickets? If you want to complain about bylaw tickets, try parking in Kits or downtown, its pretty much guaranteed you will get a parking ticket from the psycho bylaw officers at CoV, most of the time with incorrect street coordiantes, etc. just hoping you will pay. Mayor Moonbeam's private foot patrol! Get outta my way, im the meter maid, time to get paid, im the meter maid!
  7. True Blue posted on 03/06/2013 08:19 AM
    I was listening to the Simi Sara show yesterday and was shocked at some of his comments.
    The biggest stunner of them all, in my opinion, was his complaint that DTES people were being arrested on outstanding warrants when they approached the police to report on other criminal activity. Of course they were being arrested, they had outstanding warrants!
  8. NewKat posted on 03/06/2013 09:12 AM
    It is time that we, the joe average tax paying law abiding citizens, start taking back our city and our rights. Pivot needs to get real. We are tired of being "marginalized" by all the special interest groups out there. If these people did not break the law int he first place, there would not be a problem. Since when did the rights of a small group of law breakers and druggies get to be more important than those of the majority tax payer who support them?
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