Entries tagged with: jim chu
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Desperate DTES businesses write open letter to politicos, police
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DTES resident searches for some crack cocaine - Flickr photo by Patrick Doheny Recently CityCaucus.com received a note from Downtown Eastside business person Carlos Herbst asking our help in promoting the open letter written by him and signed by...
Posted on August 1, 2010 6:40 AM
Megaphone magazine releases video of police assault
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This security camera video shows VPD members in arrest of Ali Eltah Ishag Not sure what to make of this one. The video supplied by our friends down at Megaphone magazine is potentially incriminating, and no doubt it will...
Posted on July 8, 2010 7:08 AM
Olympic related policing costs an unknown budget risk for Vancouver
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GlobalTV's Ted Chernecki wonders what the real cost of 2010 Games security will be There will likely be a lot of anxiety over at Vancouver City Hall in the coming weeks as council grapples with which programs they must cut...
Posted on November 26, 2009 1:15 PM
Want to save money on cops? Build more front porches
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It's a fact: front porches make neighbourhood safe and build communitiesThe crime stats for 2008 are now in, and guess what, crime is down again (6%) for perhaps the 10th year in a row. Do you believe it? Probably not....
Posted on August 28, 2009 2:59 PM
Non-executive VPD staff raking in almost quarter of a million in salary
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Inspector Henrik Cluft passes out after working his 107th hour of overtime this month. On the plus side, he earned a gross salary of $239,000 in 2008. Yesterday CityCaucus.com revealed through one of our FOIs that over 345 employees...
Posted on May 22, 2009 2:23 PM
Robertson asks political staff to get Iggy his "share of gang war press"
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Mayor Robertson attends a photo op with the Chief to get his "share of the gang war press"A few months ago, CityCaucus.com asked for copies of Vancouver Mayor Gregor Robertson's email during a period in which he went away for...
Posted on May 11, 2009 6:03 AM
Concerns raised about political interference in police investigation
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Vancouver's Mayor goes public with comments about a VPD investigation Is the Chair of Vancouver's Police Board challenging his Chief of Police to fast track an internal investigation of an alleged assault of a delivery driver by three off-duty police...
Posted on January 26, 2009 1:15 PM
City staff 'demoralized' by costly police budget requests
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City police departments keep getting served up a bigger piece of the budget pie by their civic political leadersIn my previous job I had the pleasure of meeting a number of police chiefs from both Metro Vancouver and across Canada....
Posted on January 2, 2009 6:19 PM
