Off the 'Cuff

Checking YouTube last week, we came across this little jem. It’s a music video filmed in the building that later became our own Police Museum. The band, Images in Vogue, used the autopsy space, the morgue and the courtroom for the video. The courtroom in the video is now our main gallery… only a few [...]

The Vancouver Police Department’s Annual Reports had, until the 1960s, short descriptions, usually only a paragraph long, of many of the big crimes, murders and suicides that had occurred during the year. These descriptions were thumbnail sketches of the passions and pains that drive humans to commit such acts. Extreme poverty, drug addiction, drunkenness and [...]