SPVM promises to act against internal racism
It’s not a seasonal recurrence, but I’ve lost track how many times the SPVM has made promises to counter racism among its ranks. It’s come around again, with Fady Dagher vowing to build a centralized computer system in which racism complaints can be tracked and repeat offenders treated to “a series of consequences” (although he does not mention chucking them out).
Dagher also refuses to rule out random stops by his officers, so we can probably write this effort off to PR and expect a new promise to be made around about 2029.
Ephraim 18:17 on 2026-03-24 Permalink
The problem of random stops can be fixed, easily. Require them to input the licence plate, it takes their gps location and finally asks for the reason. It requires them to then click on an an acknowledgement, something like “By clicking here this information will be recorded and will randomly decide if you are authorized to make this stop. Do you want to submit this request?”
Basically it then can go into the database and look at where this car is actually located and see how many “random” stops have been made around here, look at the driver’s registration from where they live and how far. And then randomly look at if this is happening too much at this location and at this time to people around that postal code registration and randomly provide authorization.
So the police don’t always get authorization. But you have a database that shows if they are specifically targeting people from certain areas, in certain areas and from certain postal codes. Essentially, it randomizes their authorizations, but at the same time, let’s them know that if they are in fact, not random… it’s recorded and the bias will be plain for management to see and for the commission.