SPVM hangs onto street checks
The SPVM has unveiled its new policy on street checks. The five reasons given here suggest cops will still have considerable latitude. To prevent a crime, to collect information, to identify someone they’re looking for, suggests a wide range of possible excuses. The SPVM has ruled out banning the checks generally.
Every time they try to change their ways, the SPVM gets back to relying on the judgement of individual cops, and look where this has brought us.
Eprhaim 11:44 on 2020-07-08 Permalink
With bodycams…. maybe. Without bodycams… just too open to abuse. There still is no official policy to deal with cell phones… and no policy to tell people their rights when stopped…. like that they can film and they can lock their phones.
Jack 11:48 on 2020-07-08 Permalink
It is so obvious that our police force is simply going to play “rope a dope”. They will just wait this out has they have done before. Late 80’s early 90’s starting with Anthony Griffin’s murder to the murder of Marcellus Francois, the same new approach was bandied about, it is all the same B.S.
Until the Police force looks like Montreal’s and not Blainville’s, nothing will happen.
One key element is Yvan Francouer, who frankly has more power than the chief. In 2007 the Unions magazine described the problem with racial profiling thus,
“Évidemment, quand on parle de profilage racial, moi je ramène le monde à une autre réalité : le profilage criminel. C’est normal de faire du profilage criminel. J’ai donné l’exemple tout à l’heure d’un quartier qui serait d’une seule ethnie. Si je m’en vais à Acton Vale à côté, y a-t il quel- qu’un qui va m’accuser d’arrêter seulement des blancs francophones ? C’est ça le profilage criminel : on fait le profil de ceux qui causent les problèmes puis on les arrête. Et ce n’est pas du profilage racial.”
I truly believe that is the mentality that still exists as tone death and crazy as it sounds.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-police-release-letter-denouncing-brotherhood-president-comments-1.5630427