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POLICING & SECURITY Policing and Security are 2 terms that everyone has thoughts and feelings about. The implications of personal interactions about this in the Downtown Eastside and reports of such in the context of race, life effects, homelessness, poverty, land use and community dynamics can make conclusions stronger or change minds. On June 24 there was a community meeting at the n;)catmat et Strathcona Branch of the public library. Our Spaces Our Safety and 40+ people came to talk about how the Vancouver Police Department is perceived. Virtually all of the comments found authority to be having a negative impact on the lives of those present. On June 25 there was a Town Hall meeting organised by the Camegie Community Action Project on cutting the proposed Police Budget which is looking for an almost $10 million increase over last year, to be $3 17 million. This report will attempt to give some of the factors that came up again and again. Race The anguish came across in stories of people missing, not being respected, being treated as 2nd -class, being suspected by reason of race, being stereotyped.The history of police intervention in the overt stopping and criminalisation of people of colour, Indigenous and racialized groups goes back centuries. That alone gives an overwhelming bias against interacting with authorities, if your ancestry is Indigenous, black or a racialized minority. People spoke