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Winnipeg Police Cause Harm (WPCH) is devoted to sharing articles and personal essays that tell unique stories from across Canada related to defunding and abolishing carceral systems of policing, prisons, and migrant detention.


Tammy Bateman is the latest victim of WPS vehicular violence

Cops have consistently driven with extreme recklessness, costing the lives of many people including Koreen Wood, Crystal Taman, Cody Severight—and now Tammy Bateman.

6 min read - Published: a month ago

New transit security displaces and detains “sleepers” and “substance abusers”

The numbers and broader media reporting also suggests that the work of the security force is not to actually ensure everyone’s safety — which includes the person who is being responded to — but to rather offload people perceived to be unwell, intoxicated, unruly, or confused.

4 min read - Published: 4 months ago

Cops aren't workers

The police serve a system that is increasingly willing to ignore hard-won labour rights and engage in legalized abuse and violence to force people back to work.

3 min read - Published: 5 months ago