Transit Police and Vancouver

cherry blossoms: This year, Vancouver will participate in International Anti-Harassment Week, which launches April 13, and credit goes to a community organization called Hollaback! Vancouver and Metro Vancouver Transit Police, according to Vancouver Courier. Such an initiative is not only timely, but much needed. The cherry blossoms are blooming, jackets are coming off, and most women are bracing themselves for the downside to spring weather: increased occurrences of street and transit harassment. Hollaback! notes that in Canada, 58 per cent of women surveyed indicated they don’t feel safe on transit. Bus riders will recall last summer Transit Police launched a campaign called See Something Say Something, calling on transit riders experiencing harassment or assault to report it because not reporting sexual assault is the real shame. The transit police force, which consists of 165 sworn officers and more than 65 civilian support staff, has more often been in the limelight for alienating community groups than collaborating with them. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.