Is Montreal a violent city?
Toula Drimonis takes issue with Thursday’s MBC column claiming Montreal is a violent city and that there’s no systemic racism in the SPVM. I’m not linking to that piece of drivel but I’ve read it, and it’s meant to strengthen a narrative in which crime only exists here because of immigrant communities.
Jack 13:27 on 2021-08-26 Permalink
Ted Rutland has studied this issue in an honest empirical fashion. He is an expert in this field. https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02722011.2020.1831139
MBC refers to people like him as “hurluberlus ” which loosely translate to weirdos.
Kate 16:20 on 2021-08-26 Permalink
Crime numbers are falling.
Please, folks, no responses saying “most crime is not reported” because
1. I don’t think it’s true and
2. even if it were true, the numbers would still suggest that the falling numbers of reported crimes imply a falling number of “real” crimes, which I don’t believe anyway.
Ted 09:18 on 2021-08-27 Permalink
I denounce MBC’s column too, “de haut de mon chaire universitaire.”
Kate 16:22 on 2021-08-27 Permalink
MBC has it both ways, he panders to the philistine by mocking intellectuals, while being a cod intellectual himself (especially on visits to France, where being a philistine doesn’t play so well).