Not enough police: Brotherhood

The police brotherhood says there are not enough police in Montreal and the existing cops are doing too much overtime.

In another police story, the SPVM has bought what Radio‑Canada calls a simulateur dernier cri to train them in coping with tricky situations. This is the system they’ve bought, and luckily, it’s available in French, although I wonder which kind of French. (“Zut, c’est les flics!”)

And in a tangentially related story, Quebec is funding a chair of research into armed violence. I wonder what they want to get from this, and whether the holder of the chair will be a sociologist or a criminologist, and what will become of them if they come back with the idea of defunding the police.