The Nanaimo Area Public Safety Association (NAPSA) is a non-partisan organization and is not affiliated with any Municipal, Provincial, or Federal political party nor their operatives. We are concerned citizens who are frustrated by the ways in which our governments are systematically harming our communities through the concentration of services that attract and concentrate street disorder and organized criminal activity. We want to see sustained, long term reductions in fatal and non-fatal overdoses, violent and petty crime, and homelessness in Nanaimo. We believe that far greater accountability, transparency, and a results-focus is necessary to ease the BC Provincial Public Health and Safety Emergency declared in December 2016 and still in effect under the outdated Ministerial Order M488.
We do not accept donations in exchange for politically-motivated favours or candidate endorsements. We will engage with any political party or non-governmental organization who will listen to what we have to say – given how the last number of years have gone under the administrations in power, it regrettably tends to be political opposition who listens, but it doesn’t need to be that way exclusively.Similarly, we will engage with independent news outlets and moderate mainstream news outlets who are serious about a free press and their role in holding governments to account. We do not endorse nor engage with ‘far-right’ nor ‘far-left’ media outlets, as we believe that the polarization of political discourse is part of the problem preventing meaningful and sustained progress in easing BC’s Health and Safety Emergency.
