Police blotter: a shooting and a stabbing
Early Sunday there was a nonfatal shooting in Ahuntsic and a nonfatal stabbing in Old Montreal.
Tangential remark: the second link gives a good view of the current livery of our police cars. I remember when they were a less strident design, but around the time the force decided to jettison its sky-blue shirts (back in 2013 – you can see a bit of the older car livery here) and go for American-style blue-black uniforms, it also changed to this more American look for the vehicles. More muscular, more forceful and altogether unnecessary in a town where the top stories on the weekend are a couple of minor nonfatal assaults.
This is the kind of police mentality people are starting to question – and if I see it partly in terms of graphic design, that’s my trade. Police have been militarizing in style all over but people are beginning to make a group decision that it’s not good for society. I’m not saying cop cars need Comic Sans, but that current design reeks of redundant machismo.
DeWolf 11:24 on 2020-08-02 Permalink
The new livery also entombs the SPVM’s spiffy little modernist logo inside a frilly coat of arms, for no good reason.
mare 15:31 on 2020-08-02 Permalink
I don’t like the dark cop cars either. I hade the Dodge Charger’s look, but at least in white it was somehow okay. It was totally indistinguishable from the 50% of other cars on the road that are also white. Cop cars should of course be fluorescent and retroreflective so they’re very visible when they do high speed chases and go through red lights. Look at the livery of almost every cop car in Europe. They’re bright, even brighter than ambulances and fire trucks here.
(Of course “to serve and protect” is not the idea of cops here, it’s more “To sneak up and fine” (or worse, if you happen to be mentally ill or not white.)
Ian 08:18 on 2020-08-03 Permalink
@Kate the Orange County FL squad cars used to say “Making a difference” in comic sans. They may still do.
http://greynotgrey.com/blog/2012/06/08/do-not-use-comic-sans/