Police won’t end street checks

Despite hearings and formal complaints and a unanimous (but not binding) resolution by city council, SPVM police have no plans to end street checks on random people from visible minorities the police just know have criminal tendencies. (This contradicts a recent Christopher Curtis piece in the Gazette saying the police acknowledge a problem.)

If the force doesn’t accept they have a deep-rooted attitudinal problem, as one participant says here, they certainly can’t be trusted to create and enforce new policies. But waiting for the Quebec government to act on this problem may also reveal a disinclination to accept how fundamental a racist attitude is among our enforcers of the law. It’s an actual problem, unlike the question of wearing a religious signifier at work.