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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.

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On prisons and personal care: Disabled confinement and COVID-19

The pandemic has made clear the connections between sites of confinement and incarceration. Personal care homes, prisons, and institutions for disabled people have disproportionately experienced outbreaks, death, and long-term debilitation of incarcerated people.

5 min read - Published: 3 months ago

Policing Sex Work in Winnipeg: Q&A with SWWAC

For the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Sex Workers, WPCH member Paula Ethans sat down with Maxine* - a queer black dream✨ and sex worker in Winnipeg.

11 min read - Published: 4 months ago

Our city is unwell: Inoculation for violent, unmasked Winnipeg Police officers is a 10% budget reduction in 2021

After a year of brazen police violence and historical anti-police activism, Winnipeg’s city council is proposing an increase in funding for the WPS. WPCH is calling on City Council to immediately amend the 2021 preliminary budget to include a 10% reduction to the WPS operating budget.

13 min read - Published: 4 months ago