Police promise fight against firearms
Police are promising a new squad against traffic in firearms. But they already had the Quiétude team, mentioned in this piece from October; Toula Drimonis wrote a column discussing how such “squads” often end up doing little more than harassing Black men on no concrete evidence.
Ephraim 13:42 on 2020-12-18 Permalink
Maybe instead of spending money on such nonsense, we should actually spend it on security and trackability of inquiries in their computer system. Racism training. And maybe looking at replacing some of their cars with electric cars. (Apparently in the US they have discovered that using Tesla Model 3s at police vehicles has a return so large in year 1 that the cars almost pay for themselves quickly (savings on maintenance, savings on gasoline, etc.)
dhomas 19:49 on 2020-12-18 Permalink
If the EVs pay for themselves in the US, imagine how much faster it would be here, given our ridiculously cheap hydro.
Ephraim 20:52 on 2020-12-18 Permalink
I think it was Westport, the savings on the maintenance made up for it. And since they were electric, the police didn’t need to keep the car idling to run the computer. But the charge time would go up, so they would likely need the new level 3 chargers at the stations.