So the City of Montreal just announced a new chief of police. He's got a good rep, even with some the harshest critics of the SPVM. I really hope he can fix the mess.
Because holy shit it's a mess. We have the most police per capita of any city in Canada. Around 70% of us don't trust them. A high percentage of us (this is sort of a self-selected sample so I won't pretend it's a perfect number) want to defund/or at least look at reallocating their money. Something like 70%+ of the police don't live in the City they police. And the Brotherhood of police men and women (no, I"m not kidding) seems to run the show.
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.. meanwhile they just announced that, whoopsies, they've gone 10s of millions over budget again. FOR THE SECOND YEAR IN A ROW.