To Serve and Protect was published in 2002.

At the neighbourhood level, differential and abusive law enforcement practices inflict real and substantive health and psycho-social harms on the affected residents.

And at a societal level, such practices inevitably corrode not only our faith in the integrity of the police force, but the moral authority of the police themselves.

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After the report

Timeline of events

This report has resulted in law changes in Vancouver policing. Here is a timeline of events:

2002 - October: To Serve and Protect launched

2003 - June: Affidavits filed The publication of the report in October 2002 was followed in June 2003 with the filing of the 50 afidavits describing specific instances of misconduct with the Office of the Police Complaint Commissioner.

2003 - August: RCMP investigation announced Pivot argues that the VPD police chief Jamie Graham was biased based on comments made to the media in November 2002. As a result, the Police Complaint Commissioner ordered the RCMP to conduct a wide-ranging investigation into the misconduct alleged in the 50 affidavits.

2003/2004: RCMP investigation hindered by non-cooperation A seven-member team of senior RCMP officers investigated the affidavits in 2004.

The non-cooperation by VPD officers with the investigation made it difficult to substantiate many of the claims made in Pivot's original affidavit report.

Fifty-four percent of named officers and 69 percent of the witness officers failed to cooperate with the police complaint process.

December 2004: RCMP report given to Vancouver Police The results of the investigation by the RCMP are given to the local authority in accordance with the Police Act, in this case, the VPD.

The report found nine cases were substantiated.

The VPD hold their own internal investigation in secret.

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