Police admit to racial profiling problem
The SPVM is admitting it has a problem with systemic racial profiling and is promising to do something about it by next March.
I’ve been doing this blog for 18 years and several times have seen this issue raised and promises made by the police force, only for nothing to happen. I wish I felt realistic expectation that things will change this time.
Mark Côté 14:46 on 2019-11-22 Permalink
If some administration were to actually fix this, it would be this one. Mayyyyyybe.
Kate 19:24 on 2019-11-22 Permalink
I’ve never been able to suss out how much leverage any given city hall administration has had against the police force*. The most overt was Coderre, of course, who figured he could call up the police and get them to do things for him “because I’m your boss.” I don’t know whether this might work better than a more diplomatic approach, but then I don’t even know how the relationship is defined in law.
*On Saturday, it was made clear in this CBC piece that Montreal does not have the power to change how its police behave. Only Quebec does. I have no idea how this compares to city powers in other jurisdictions.