Police to redeploy community squads
Quebec cut off funding for the SPVM’s community policing (ECCR) squads earlier this year, but the force itself is going to deploy them again in nine boroughs starting in September. But this article suggests that ECCR squads have continued to work downtown past the end of the funding.
Ian 11:46 on 2024-06-22 Permalink
Unsurprisingly, since this is is one of the pillars of Dagher’s approach to policing – but also an excellent example of a function that would be better served by community social workers rather than the police, if only there were funding to be had. The image of the 2 cops in readiness pose, clear disdain on their faces, obviously harassing sleeping homeless people says it all.
Kate 15:37 on 2024-06-22 Permalink
From time to time there are reports of social workers accompanying police, as I linked here and here. I don’t know whether these reports are made after police do a PR exercise for journalists, but it sometimes feels like that’s all it is, since such reports turn up periodically yet nothing much changes.