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Indigenous issues in policing and justice
Legislative reform to reduce Indigenous women’s manufactured vulnerability
Recommendation 4: Implement independent civilian oversight of officials responsible for responding to and investigating violence against Indigenous women. Ensure that administrative, disciplinary, or criminal measures are available to hold such officials accountable when officers are found to have failed to act on reports of missing women or to have carried out biased or inadequate investigations of violence against Indigenous women.-
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- Access to justice ,
- Courts ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Gender-based violence ,
- Health, wellness and services ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- Missing and murdered Indigenous women, girls, Two-Spirit, and LGBTQ2SIA+ people ,
- Policing ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Sexism
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Legislative reform to reduce Indigenous women’s manufactured vulnerability
Recommendation 6: End the apprehension of Indigenous children and prohibit the placement of Indigenous children into non-Indigenous foster and adoptive families.-
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Legislative reform to reduce Indigenous women’s manufactured vulnerability
Recommendation 7: Require Gladue factors to be used as mitigating factors only, unless the victim is an Indigenous woman in which case her wishes should take precedence over an offender.-
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Legislative reform to reduce Indigenous women’s manufactured vulnerability
Recommendation 8: End the policing practice of street checks; reduce the number of bylaw infraction tickets issued by police in the DTES; prohibit police from carrying and using all lethal weapons; develop guidelines to facilitate greater use of police discretion not to lay charges especially for minor poverty-related offences; and end the counter-charging and criminalization of Indigenous women who defend themselves or their children.-
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- Access to justice ,
- Classism ,
- Decolonization and Indigenous rights ,
- Discrimination and hate ,
- Economic inequality ,
- Human rights system ,
- Indigenous children and youth in care ,
- Indigenous issues in policing and justice ,
- Indigenous rights and self-governance ,
- Policing and the criminal justice system ,
- Poverty ,
- Poverty and economic inequality ,
- Sexism
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Legislative reform to reduce Indigenous women’s manufactured vulnerability
Recommendation 9: Commit to using non-incarceration and alternative measures especially for minor offenses committed by Indigenous women. Governments must also provide sufficient and stable funding to Indigenous communities and organizations to provide alternatives to incarceration including community-based rehabilitation, diversion, community courts, and restorative justice methods geared towards Indigenous women.-
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Legislative reform to reduce Indigenous women’s manufactured vulnerability
Recommendation 10: Repeal laws that criminalize or increase harm for Indigenous women in the sex trade.-
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End the criminalization of people who use or possess small amounts of illicit substances.
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Immediate services needed in the DTES
Recommendation 17: Fund more 24/7 low-barrier emergency shelters, transition homes, and drop-ins for women with long-term funding and full wrap-around supports. Also fund more Indigenous-centered and community-based, rather than police-based, victim services programs that provide holistic support including connection to land-based healing and guidance from elders.-
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Immediate services needed in the DTES
Recommendation 20: Expand non-policing options for publicly intoxicated people, including civilian-operated 24/7 sobering centres providing appropriate care for Indigenous women.-
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Immediate services needed in the DTES
Recommendation 23: Fund an Indigenous legal clinic in the DTES that can support Indigenous women in all criminal and civil legal matters including but not limited to family, criminal, mental health, and poverty law issues.-
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