Music video scene goes wrong
Rappers filming part of a music video in the Plateau found themselves flat on the ground under police orders on Tuesday, as the prop guns they were brandishing sparked calls to 911. The crew never got a filming permit from the borough, and police were not forewarned that prop guns were going to be used, as is supposed to happen.
Incidentally, on the subject of guns, Ted Rutland had an interesting tweet this morning: “After a year of the police, the media, and Projet Montréal telling us that gun violence is out of control in the city, the SPVM released its annual report for 2020 yesterday. Gun crime is down 5%.”
Joey 10:11 on 2021-06-17 Permalink
Agreed that the numbers don’t match up with the narrative, but it also feels like the last two-three months have been different than, say, 2020. Anyway, if gun violence is up a little this spring, it seems pretty contained and not something that will directly affect the vast, vast majority of Montrealers. There does seem to be a concerted effort to turn discussion of systemic racism, oppression, white supremacy, police misconduct and economic hardship into a very narrow “conversation” about “law and order” and gun crime.
DavidH 10:11 on 2021-06-17 Permalink
Wow, that tweet is such bull.
You need the context for crimes to happen. Crime against people need people to be in contact to happen. That’s what was down this year, not the propensity of people to use firearms.
What those numbers actually show is a 73% increase in murder attempts and a 35% in bodily harm using firearms.
The armed robberies that used to happen at night and the bar brawls that ended in gunshots were down drastically because those situations ceased mostly to exist for the last half of the year. Yet, the overall decrease is minimal because most other gun uses are up. We all know those will be back up once as things go back to normal. That 5% decrease is a temporary anomaly. Closing depanneurs at night and bars 2-3 weeks later than we did would have made for a 5% increase a year end instead. The 73% increase in murder attempts however, is based on situations that will remain ongoing. (I don’t mention homicide numbers because those are always outliers).
I don’t condone fear mongering but let’s not lie to ourselves about reality either.
Kevin 10:12 on 2021-06-17 Permalink
Here’s the SPVM report. https://rapportspvm2020.ca/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Rapport-spvm-2020-en.pdf
Firearm Violence is on page 7, and that’s up from 383 to 437 in 2020.
Page 6 has other Firearms offences that aren’t related to violence (unauthorized possession, improper storage, etc…) and that was down from 344 to 251.
Kate 10:14 on 2021-06-17 Permalink
Thanks for the link, Kevin. I should have had that.
Joey 10:14 on 2021-06-17 Permalink
Anyone who compares 2020 to 2019 without being able to control for a once-in-a-century global pandemic that forced everyone to stay home for nine months should stop what they’re doing and consider a new line of work.
Kevin 10:16 on 2021-06-17 Permalink
Kate
C’était mon plaisir.
Ephraim 11:04 on 2021-06-17 Permalink
The police don’t like to remind people, unless the numbers go up significantly… that’s not crime statistics, that’s Reported Crime Statistics. There was a lot more telephone and internet scams this year, but since they aren’t readily reported, it’s hard to tell.
Kate 15:02 on 2021-06-17 Permalink
Maybe so, Ephraim, but scams are not usually carried out with guns : )
Ephraim 15:16 on 2021-06-17 Permalink
@Kate – Neither are bank robberies…. if someone is stupid enough to actually do one anymore. They never show a gun because the jail time is longer. They point their fingers from their pockets.