In 2019, the Downtown Eastside Women’s Centre published the report entitled “RED WOMEN RISING: Indigenous Women Survivors in Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside” and written by Carol Muree Martin (Nisga’a – Gitanyow) and Harsha Walia. This report is the first comprehensive project with Indigenous women survivors in the DTES figuring at the very centre of community research, rather than as a secondary statistic.
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Recommendations to keep Indigenous families together in the DTES
End child apprehensions
Recommendation 115: End the apprehension of Indigenous children due to poverty or Eurocentric ideas of neglect that stem from a legacy of colonization. Poverty must not be conflated with neglect or mistreatment, and removing children from their families exacerbates cycles of trauma and poverty.-
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Recommendations to keep Indigenous families together in the DTES
Accountability
Recommendation 131: Require that all child welfare decision makers and courts must mandatorily consider the impact of the residential school experience on children and their caregivers.-
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Recommendations to end criminalization of Indigenous women in the DTES
Policing
Recommendation 136: As in other jurisdictions, prohibit the police from carrying and using all lethal weapons. Even in the most escalated scenario, there is no justification for a police-involved lethal shooting.-
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Recommendation 137: Eliminate the use of VPD restraint devices such as the hobble restraint device, and end the use of police dogs as weapons.-
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Recommendation 138: Eliminate searches and monitoring of Indigenous women and girls by male police officers.-
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Recommendation 139: Immediate independent investigation into the VPD practice of street checks with the goal of ending street checks.-
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Recommendation 140: Reduce the number of bylaw infraction tickets issued by VPD in the DTES.-
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Recommendation 141: Develop guidelines to facilitate greater use of police discretion not to lay charges especially for minor poverty-related offences.-
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Recommendation 142: Ensure that that all policing practices conform to the Good Samaritan Drug Overdose Act.-
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Recommendation 143: All police forces should implement Sex Work Enforcement Guidelines similar to those in Vancouver that support the safety of sex workers in police interactions.-
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