Fady Dagher plan signed off by the city
Police chief Fady Dagher’s plan to restructure the police service to bring it closer to people has been endorsed by the city.
I’ve now seen a couple of cycles of this: smaller police stations are established in neighbourhoods, on the theory that this will make cops work better on a local scale. Then a new broom comes in with a mission to save money and centralize, the local stuff is cut and the number of stations reduced, and the force is centralized. A few years later, a new decentralization phase hits again, as it’s doing now under Dagher.
It will only take a more right-wing city hall and a tightening of belts for the centralization pendulum to reverse again. Not taking bets yet on when.
Ian 20:11 on 2023-09-17 Permalink
Regardless the only source cited here is Dagher and the SPVM. This isn’t journalism, it’s dialled-in copaganda.
Police announcements about themselves, really? Who cares.
walkerp 10:03 on 2023-09-18 Permalink
I hate the police (as they are currently structured in our society), but why so much knee-jerk cynicism here. This is something that could lead to some minor improvements and maybe pave the way for a more integrated, community-oriented police force.
Things do improve in society sometimes.
Ian 16:14 on 2023-09-18 Permalink
I don’t believe for one second that this will lead to any improvements. The police still refuse to acknowledge systemic racism and still intend to do “random” ID checks.
You want to improve society? Stop making the police do every public facing job short of trash collection, and rejig the funding appropriately.
walkerp 18:50 on 2023-09-18 Permalink
We know, Ian. Continue wallowing in your bitterness.
Ian 19:09 on 2023-09-18 Permalink
I’m not bitter, I’m progressive. Why do you insist on being a shill for cops and pulling ad hominems instead of questioning cop press releases being reported as “news” or at least considering how police budgets might be better allocated to improving public life? Systemic racism aside for a second, it doesn’t make any sense to have cops be the answer for everything any more than it makes sense to solve all our problems with clowns.