Police interfered with report
Global expands on a report late last month in Le Devoir: SPVM police management interfered with a study being conducted by academics on random street checks by police. This is a good piece on the implications of the story, and the shiftiness of hero police chief Fady Dagher on the issue.
Ian 11:01 on 2024-08-07 Permalink
Senior cops & administrators being shifty around accusations of systemic racism? That’s unpossible! /s
Dagher is just making stuff up as a misdirection, this whole “cop on the street” routine is his core schtick and he has no intention of changing that. It’s a large part of how he justifies the bloated police budget.
A moratorium on randomly harassing citizens going about their day, er, “random street checks” would be a good start. I’m still waiting for the big, big conversation about re-investing a good chunk of the police budget in social services, though.