Police focused on public safety and equal treatment for every resident. AI accountability for everyone paid with tax dollars. A Downtown Eastside that gets the same help as any neighbourhood in this city.
"Policing needs to be focused on public safety — ensuring people have help when they need it and everyone gets equal service."
— Scott Gilbert
AI should review the actions of everyone paid with tax dollars to ensure they are performing well and acting in the public interest — including the VPD, City Council, and the Mayor.
AI should review police reports and flag differential treatment so the public knows if one group is getting better or worse service than another. We don't need more police. We need better results from the ones we have.
Officers rewarded for helping people — not for the number of charges laid, tickets issued, or interactions with homeless residents. Anyone who doesn't meet the public interest standard should not be representing the City of Vancouver.
AI flags differential treatment in police reports so the public can see whether every neighbourhood and every population is receiving the same level of service and protection.
If public-interest benchmarks are met, officers get a raise. If they are not met, those responsible are demoted or removed. Results determine compensation — not seniority alone.
The Downtown Eastside needs a paramedic available 24/7 — someone everyone in the neighbourhood knows and can relate to.
Emergency call buttons should be on every corner in the DTES. Payphones and public wifi should have been installed and maintained for the past twenty years. Public cell phone charging stations would benefit the whole city.
A dedicated paramedic the community knows, trusts, and can reach at any hour.
On every corner in the DTES — immediate connection to help for anyone without a phone.
Should have been done twenty years ago. A Scott Gilbert administration will do it.
Public charging stations across the city — because staying connected is a basic need.
People and companies that prey on and exploit the vulnerable should be the priority for investigators and police action — not harassing people who sell things they have recovered from dumpsters, or being rough with people in the absence of something that objectively requires it.
Anyone who doesn't agree should not be representing the City of Vancouver.
Police will be directed to help those who need a bed get into one — a bed the mayor ensures is available. Not to move people along to somewhere else.
Police will be directed to help people get to the hospital when they need medical care — not to criminalize illness or addiction.
People without a home have belongings too. Police will protect them from theft with the same seriousness as they protect any homeowner's property.
The cleaning up of the Downtown Eastside will be done by those who live there. The City will pay them as much as it would pay anyone else for that work.
People need dignity, to be treated fairly, and the mayor will call for mutual respect. That's the best approach if we want safe streets and respect for police.