⚠️ Trigger Warning: Sexual assault, police misconduct, racism, misogyny, mental health crises, systemic failures, fentanyl deaths
💔 When the System Fails: Trauma, Abandonment, and Bureaucracy in B.C.
We grow up believing in heroes. We’re told police are the good guys, the ones we can call when we’re scared, hurt, or in danger. That they will protect us.
Then reality hits.
😢 A Friend’s Nightmare
A friend has been through hell worrying about their child. During a mental health crisis, their teen was taken to hospital, but privacy rules and bureaucratic failures meant the parent couldn’t get information, even though the child was under 18.
Multiple frantic calls, misinformation from staff, and chaotic police response added to the trauma. The teen was held for three days in a psychiatric ward over a long weekend, with procedures neither parent nor child understood. Staff reassured them with meaningless platitudes like:
“It’s such a wonderful place, some patients don’t want to leave.” 😳💔
Meanwhile, police response was reckless:
- Officers went to the wrong door and kicked it in.
- One officer aimed a large rifle at the teen.
- Another reportedly played on a trampoline while waiting for an ambulance.
This is not care. This is a system protecting itself instead of children.
🚨 RCMP & VPD: Misconduct & Overreach
- Recently, B.C. RCMP officers were found to violate the Code of Conduct with racist, sexist, and homophobic messages. Yet disciplinary outcomes remain unclear.
- The VPD arrested over 1,100 people in six months, disproportionately targeting marginalized communities — operating like a local ICE.
- Officers who abuse power are rarely held accountable, while victims face ridicule and dismissal.
🧠NCR & Youth: Restraints, Isolation, and Systemic Harm
- Youth and young adults in NCR or mental health systems are often locked in restraints, isolated, or held without clear explanation.
- Children as young as 12 can legally consent to medical treatment — but in practice, this abandons them to a system that shifts responsibility, avoids accountability, and leaves trauma in its wake.
⚠️ Privacy, Policy, and Systemic Neglect
- Privacy laws, meant to protect patients, are often used to shield institutions from responsibility.
- Doctors and hospitals shirk accountability, citing “minor rights” while leaving parents in the dark.
- Teens navigating crises alone are vulnerable to harm, including unsafe experimentation with medications and substances.
💊 The Fentanyl Crisis
- Nearly 18,000 people in B.C. have died from fentanyl and other opioids in recent years.
- Many young people are left to navigate mental health and medical systems without support, sometimes experimenting with dangerous substances.
- Abandoned youth + chaotic policing + NCR failures = a perfect storm for harm.
❓ Reflective Questions
- How would you feel if this happened to your child?
- How safe is anyone reporting sexual assault or mental health crises when the systems fail?
- How do privacy laws and bureaucracy sometimes protect institutions instead of people?
- Who benefits when youth are restrained, isolated, or abandoned — the system, or the children themselves?
- How can we demand empathy, transparency, and accountability in policing, healthcare, and social services?
✊ Enough is Enough
Two years, ten posts, thousands of stories — and the system continues to fail.
- Officers who abuse power must be fired and held accountable.
- Mental health systems must prioritize clarity, dignity, and real care, not bureaucracy.
- Families and communities deserve transparency and support, not obstruction.
We cannot allow trauma, neglect, and systemic cruelty to continue. Human lives cannot wait. 💔
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