Montreal, a dangerous city?

Security has become a hot potato in the election – especially, I suspect, because the parties know that municipal voting skews older, and older people skew cautious and jumpy. La Presse’s Philippe Teisceira-Lessard lays out some numbers and gets some soundbites about the situation.

One cop cited says “It’s not like we’re finding a body in the trunk of an abandoned car. We’re talking about finding 43 gun casings on two street corners. Someone’s putting on a show.” That seems obvious, but it’s a show with consequences, judicial and political.