“New measures” coming against guns

A news conference will be held Saturday afternoon on new measures to combat gun violence. Public Security Minister Geneviève Guilbault, Minister for Montreal Chantal Rouleau, Mayor Plante and interim police chief Sophie Roy will be there.

I hope they’ll all have read Patrick Lagacé’s level‑headed piece about the failures that have led to an influx of firearms no one seems able to stop. That cops spend half their time coping with crises that actually need a social worker backed up with real mental health care services, that the unregretted police chief Philippe Pichet disbanded four effective anti‑gang squads in 2016 and wasted the collective knowledge they had accumulated, that the federal government has signalled they’re not very interested in pursuing gang crime, that the force is headed by an interim chief at a time of crisis – he assembles all these facts and more and hands them to us on a plate.