The Victoria crime thread
#16041
Posted 21 August 2021 - 06:49 AM
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#16042
Posted 21 August 2021 - 07:46 AM
VicPD Quarterly Report being presented at Esquimalt Council on August 23, shortly after 6pm.Same report will be heading to City of Victoria council probably on September 2.
Presentation and webcasting by the VicPD presenter (probably Manak): https://esquimalt.ca...tgKJehPeIKw4IKs
Direct Link to online version of the report: https://vicpd.ca/ope...-cards/2021-q2/
Doesn't appear to be much in the report that might indicate significant changes but some notables could include information in these graphs (see attached).
Perception of crime continues to increase.
While the VicPD-initiated News Releases have significantly increased, the externally-initiated Freedom Of Information requests have trended somewhat downward.
Fulsome media coverage of police racism issues and "defunding" calls may have contributed to downward trend in perception of police accountability
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Edited by JohnN, 21 August 2021 - 07:49 AM.
#16043
Posted 21 August 2021 - 07:46 AM
VicPD Quarterly Report being presented at Esquimalt Council on August 23, shortly after 6pm.Same report will be heading to City of Victoria council probably on September 2.
Presentation and webcasting by the VicPD presenter (probably Manak): https://esquimalt.ca...tgKJehPeIKw4IKs
Direct Link to online version of the report: https://vicpd.ca/ope...-cards/2021-q2/
Doesn't appear to be much that might indicated significant changes in VicPD report but some notables could include information in these grap
While the VicPD-initiated News Releases have significantly increased, the externally-initiated Freedom Of Information requests have trended somewhat downward.
Fulsome media coverage of police racism issues and "defunding" calls may have contributed to downward trend in perception of police accountability
.
#16044
Posted 21 August 2021 - 07:52 AM
and now you have the damn ferry workers reporting medical conditions as assaults.
#16045
Posted 21 August 2021 - 07:53 AM
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 21 August 2021 - 07:53 AM.
#16046
Posted 21 August 2021 - 07:32 PM
-I hope this issue is resolved quickly...I'm dreading turning on the car radio @ 0900 Monday and hearing Adam work up his spittle, practice his stagey dramatic pauses etc over yet another incident.
@Adam_Stirling
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Hearing about an ongoing police incident near Quadra and Caledonia, diagonally across the intersection from @vicpdcanada headquarters. What appear to be GVERT members are on scene. Another rough day in North Park… avoid the area if possible.
#16047
Posted 21 August 2021 - 08:10 PM
16 minutes ago
#16048
Posted 23 August 2021 - 11:39 AM
Victoria, BC – Patrol officers arrested a man on Friday afternoon after a violent attack on a 72-year-old woman in downtown Victoria.
Shortly after 12:30 p.m. on Friday, August 20th, Patrol officers were called to the 1100-block of Douglas Street for a report of a man striking a woman on the sidewalk. Officers responded immediately and located the victim, a 72-year-old woman, who had been attacked by an unknown man. The suspect left the area after the assault.
The man had reportedly asked the victim for money, and when the woman declined, the suspect pushed the victim to the ground and struck her several times. A bystander reportedly intervened to stop the assault. B.C. Emergency Health Services paramedics attended and transported the victim to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Officers continued their investigation and identified the suspect in the incident. At approximately 4 p.m. on Friday, officers located and arrested the suspect in the 900-block of View Street without incident. Officers transported the suspect to VicPD cells where he was later released with a court date and conditions.
The suspect, a 42-year-old Victoria man, faces recommended charges of assault.
This file remains under investigation.
If you have information about this incident and have not spoken with investigators, please call our non-emergency line at (250) 995-7654. To report what you know anonymously, please call Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
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#16049
Posted 23 August 2021 - 12:15 PM
Date: Monday, August 23, 2021 - File: #21-33921
Victoria, BC – Patrol officers, working with the Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team (GVERT), apprehended a man on Saturday evening after he made several threats towards staff at a local business and barricaded himself in a multi-unit residential building in Victoria.
At approximately 2 p.m. on Friday, August 20th, Patrol officers received a report that a man had entered a business in the 700-block of Finlayson Street and threatened to harm the employees. The man then left the store and repeatedly phoned the business to make threats against staff and the building.
Officers investigated to determine the identity and location of the man. The following day, on Saturday, August 21st, the man repeatedly called 911 throughout the day to make threats toward call takers.
Officers identified the man and located him in a suite in a multi-unit residential building in the 1800-block of Quadra Street. The man refused to communicate with officers and barricaded himself inside a suite at that location.
The Greater Victoria Emergency Response Team (GVERT), including Crisis Negotiators were deployed to the scene and worked for several hours to the negotiate a surrender with the man. However, the man refused to communicate with police.
At approximately 11 p.m. GVERT officers deployed an irritant gas into the suite and the man surrendered without further incident. Officers transported the man to hospital for a mental health assessment. No one was physically injured in this incident.
This file remains under investigation.
If you have information about this incident and have not spoken with investigators, please call our non-emergency line at (250) 995-7654. To report what you know anonymously, please call Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
#16050
Posted 23 August 2021 - 03:33 PM
The usual “ he was later released with a court date and conditions.”… how is that poor woman supposed to feel? Are is the rest of us supposed to feel?Man Arrested After Attacking 72-Year-Old Woman
Victoria, BC – Patrol officers arrested a man on Friday afternoon after a violent attack on a 72-year-old woman in downtown Victoria.
Shortly after 12:30 p.m. on Friday, August 20th, Patrol officers were called to the 1100-block of Douglas Street for a report of a man striking a woman on the sidewalk. Officers responded immediately and located the victim, a 72-year-old woman, who had been attacked by an unknown man. The suspect left the area after the assault.
The man had reportedly asked the victim for money, and when the woman declined, the suspect pushed the victim to the ground and struck her several times. A bystander reportedly intervened to stop the assault. B.C. Emergency Health Services paramedics attended and transported the victim to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries.
Officers continued their investigation and identified the suspect in the incident. At approximately 4 p.m. on Friday, officers located and arrested the suspect in the 900-block of View Street without incident. Officers transported the suspect to VicPD cells where he was later released with a court date and conditions.
The suspect, a 42-year-old Victoria man, faces recommended charges of assault.
This file remains under investigation.
If you have information about this incident and have not spoken with investigators, please call our non-emergency line at (250) 995-7654. To report what you know anonymously, please call Greater Victoria Crime Stoppers at 1-800-222-8477.
This is all absurd.
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#16051
Posted 23 August 2021 - 04:00 PM
Driver was serving life sentence for 1997 conviction of brutal killing of Tanya Smith, 16
Aug. 23, 2021
Terry Driver as he looked around the time of the killing of Tanya Smith and the attempted murder of Misty Cockerill in Abbotsford in October 1995.
Convicted killer Terry Driver has died in custody.
Driver was serving life in prison for the murder of Tanya Smith, 16, and attempted murder of Misty Cockerill, 15, in 1995 in Abbotsford. He also eventually was found to have committed several other violent crimes against women.
Driver had taunted the police following Smith’s murder, indicating he was the killer and revealing evidence that had not been publicly released. The calls were made from payphones.
He also removed Smith’s headstone from the cemetery where she was buried and placed it on a vehicle outside of a local radio station. Words written on the headstone included “She was not the first” and “She won’t be the last.”
#16052
Posted 23 August 2021 - 04:37 PM
The usual “ he was later released with a court date and conditions.”… how is that poor woman supposed to feel? Are is the rest of us supposed to feel?
This is all absurd.
He has very likely assaulted other people and is out awaiting trial on those as well.
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#16053
Posted 23 August 2021 - 10:27 PM
August 23, 2021
A replica pellet handgun seized by Salt Spring RCMP after an altercation between two men Aug. 19
Salt Spring Island RCMP arrested a man involved in an altercation where witnesses reported a handgun appeared to be pointed at another man.
RCMP responded to a report of two men arguing on the Ganges Centennial Docks, in the 100-block of Fulford Ganges Road on Aug. 19.
#16055
Posted 24 August 2021 - 04:49 AM
Man charged w/Pearson College abduction/kidnapping has gone missing:
https://bc-cb.rcmp-g...contentId=70847
#16056
Posted 24 August 2021 - 04:53 AM
Man charged w/Pearson College abduction/kidnapping has gone missing:
i think the publication ban prevents media from linking this missing person case to the pearson case.
https://www.timescol...-him-1.24353059
https://www.saanichn...or-missing-man/
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 August 2021 - 04:53 AM.
#16057
Posted 24 August 2021 - 05:18 AM
From an article on recent random assaults in downtown Vic:
Downtown Victoria Business Association executive director Jeff Bray said the recent incidents raise a number of issues, including the importance of keeping those involved in custody.
“This is clearly a violent individual,” he said of the latest case. “They were arrested and then released with conditions.
“The fact that these isolated, random attacks happen is concerning.”
Bray said it is also important for the province to move quickly with complex-care programs “for individuals that are struggling with mental health and/or addictions.”
“It’s a small cohort of individuals that are creating these problems and really the province needs to step up and actually deal with them.”
Victoria Mayor Lisa Helps said such attacks in any downtown are “unacceptable.”
Like Bray, she said there are some people who either need more than the current system can provide or should probably be held in custody longer “rather than released onto the streets to undertake this kind of behaviour.”
More: https://www.timescol...oria-1.24353035
#16058
Posted 24 August 2021 - 06:51 AM
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#16059
Posted 24 August 2021 - 06:56 AM
The BC Liberals are coming up with some pretty significant policy positions on just this very thing, is my understanding.
that are likely to meet civil liberties legal challenges. i don't think there is much appetite for more involuntary medical admission and confinement. that bar has been raised pretty high. and the other alternative is tougher sentencing and again courts are unlikely to move that way.
it's one thing to medically confine someone that is currently undoing some type of dangerous psychosis and is clearly a risk to immediate safety but its quite hard to justify when that behaviour is quite infrequent or sporadic.
Edited by Victoria Watcher, 24 August 2021 - 07:03 AM.
#16060
Posted 24 August 2021 - 07:00 AM
Ultimately, we may see the government go to court, arguing that the only reasonable thing to do is to offer people the choice of prison or long-term rehabilitation and supervision. It serves nobody if a mentally unwell person goes to prison for two years, then ends up right where they started.
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