{"id":649,"date":"2006-02-13T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-10-24T12:25:34","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2022-09-25T21:29:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T01:29:57","slug":"letter-to-toronto-police-chief-william-blair-re-report-of-police-destroying-crack-pipes","status":"publish","type":"publication22","link":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/letter-to-toronto-police-chief-william-blair-re-report-of-police-destroying-crack-pipes\/","title":{"rendered":"Letter to Toronto Police Chief William Blair re: Report of police destroying crack pipes"},"content":{"rendered":"&#8221;I write to you, on behalf of the Canadian HIV\/AIDS Legal Network, to express our concern with recent public reports of Toronto police officers confiscating and destroying personal possessions, including drug use equipment, from people who use illegal drugs. We refer, in particular, to the story that appeared recently on the front page of The Globe and Mail (\u201cNew police strategy designed to blanket high-violence areas\u201d, Feb. 13). In that story, it is reported that, under the aegis of the new Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy (TAVIS), \u201cEric the drug addict\u201d was surrounded by police officers who compelled him to hand over various possessions, including two crack pipes, at least one of which was then \u201ccrunched underfoot\u201d by police . . . .&#8221;<br \/>\n<!-- Joanne Csete, Toronto Anti-Violence Intervention Strategy, TAVIS, Urban Organized Crime Squad, Toronto Drug Strategy --><p class=\"download-link-button\"><a class=\"download-link en\" title=\"Letter to Toronto Police Chief William Blair re: Report of police destroying crack pipes\" href=\"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/download\/10615\/?tmstv=1777518601\" rel=\"nofollow\">\r\n\tDownload<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"publication_topics":[147],"publication_type":[170],"publication_language":[184],"class_list":["post-649","publication22","type-publication22","status-publish","hentry","publication_topics-drug-policy","publication_type-advocacy","publication_language-english"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/649","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/publication22"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/649\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20889,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication22\/649\/revisions\/20889"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=649"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"publication_topics","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_topics?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"publication_type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_type?post=649"},{"taxonomy":"publication_language","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hivlegalnetwork.ca\/site\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/publication_language?post=649"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}