Ted Rutland

Transition Montreal's platform on policing blows the old parties away:
(1) transfer non-criminal 911 calls to a civilian response unit,
(2) stop the police from exceeding its budget by $50M/year and use the money to fund violence prevention,
(3) abolish street checks.

They know this, obviously, but Ensemble Montréal is forever on the side of the police brotherhood and Projet stopped pretending long ago that it cares about communities targeted by police.

The two old Montreal parties are promising exactly the same police "reforms": body cameras and mixed squads (police + social workers).
The first policy is demanded by the police brotherhoods to increase police power and impunity. The second just wrecks community work.

Two years of this. Two years of genocide, two years of rising fascism, two years of the tortured justifications and self-destruction of western liberalism, and two years, finally, of Palestinians showing the way to the liberation of all peoples. Free Palestine.

The mayor of Longueuil, Catherine Fournier, was asked what she would do to stop police violence. She replied that we need to trust our public institutions and that she "reiterates [her] full support and confidence in the police, who are extremely affected and shaken" right now.

The thing is, we know where the Airbnb crime group is headquartered. It has an address. But instead of stopping the crime as its source, we are spending tens of millions of dollars of public money to hire inspectors to locate and fine its hitmen.

What exactly is the difference between Airbnb and an organized crime group? What would happen if a mafia don said, "I'm not gonna tell my hitmen to stop killing people, it's up to the police to arrest them"?

crisis prevention > crisis intervention

reallocate police spending to improve people's material conditions
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Millennials Are Killing Capitalism: Counterinsurgency Urbanism with Ted Rutland In this episode, recorded mid-2024, we speak with Ted Rutland about the evolution of policing from the mid-20th century's professional model to the counterinsurgency urbanism that emerged in the 1970s...

It was a dream to talk with @queersocialism about the Montreal police, the never-ending "war on gangs," and counter-insurgency politics on my fav podcast. If you're not already listening to MAKC, there's an easy way to make your life better!
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The killing of Nooran is another reminder of how policing today operates through routine terror and violence *and* community outreach, dialogue, and inclusion. If you missed it, I explained how this works in Montreal, as best I could, in this interview with MAKC.

Editorial: The only option is defunding, not reforming | Opinions Nooran Rezayi, a 15-year-old child, was murdered by Longueuil police on Sept. 21. We cannot trust the system to deliver justice to itself. Defunding the police and funding youth and crisis services is...

"If we are serious about reducing police violence, contact with armed officers must fall. That means defunding: reallocating money from police budgets to services that prevent harm and resolve conflict without guns." Excellent editorial from The Link. thelinknewspaper.ca/article/edit...

Quand même hein... TOUS les jeunes ont des sacs à dos... alors on fait quoi... on les tire tous proactivement au cas où?? Que ce discours est honteux!

Meurtre gratuit de Nooran Rezayi : guerre du récit médiatique – Pivot Pendant que le BEI essaie de nous endormir, la police travaille à tuer la sympathie populaire envers la plus jeune victime de bavure de l’histoire du Québec.

«La police s’active à influencer le récit médiatique pour que le public ait davantage peur des jeunes que des flics.» Texte d'Alexandre Popovic à lire absolument dans Pivot.
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Tout le monde en parle, the most-watched TV show in Quebec, invited pro-cop reporter Pascal Robidas and ex-cop André Gélinas to talk about the killing of Nooran. Here's a lovely insight from Gélinas: "we know that gang members carry weapons in manpurses, backpacks ..."

Okay, je fais confiance à tes recherches ! Merci !

Je vais re-examiné les infos que j’ai. J’étais là samedi et j’ai vu l’escouade anti-émeute à trois reprises. J’étais certain que c’était le SPVM mais c’est possible que j’ai tort.

Je crois que c'est dimanche, pas samedi non ?

Here's the logic in written form. Police "intelligence" discovered that "a few people could seek to provoke confrontations with the police." So we sent over 200 cops.

We have racist militarized gangs in our cities that only know how to do one thing: meet any show of force with 10 times more force. A woman with balloons? Sent a riot cop to trail her.

Somehow this is normal. A reckless, racist cop harasses and threatens Nooran and his friends for months before finally killing him – and leaving a community in grief and terror. When the community calls a march for Nooran, the police show up to terrorize them again.

Une pétition demeure symbolique, mais les symboles sont importants en ce moment. Merci de partager et de signer. Merci de commenter cette publication pour qu'un maximum de personne la voit.
Justice pour Nooran.

Anti-émeute = Montreal (SPVM). Les autres flics = Longueuil (SPAL).

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The riot squad was SPVM, the other cops were SPAL.

A pathetic display by the SPVM riot squad at yesterday's march for Nooran.

"No riot? No problem. We'll deploy anyway and see if we can provoke one."

The Killing of Nooran and the End of Community Policing – The Rover The police shooting of an unarmed teen should call into question the sterling public image of the Longueuil police force and the role of countless reporters and elected officials in creating this…

"Longueuil police force is the embodiment of police reform, the 'avant-garde' of community-oriented policing."

"It was this police force, a reformed police force, that burdened Black and Arab people with oppressive police stops [..] and that finally killed Nooran."
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If Godzilla were a realistic movie, there would be a bunch of liberals running around calling for multi-species training and reptile-worn cameras.

It's interesting that Longueuil police are suddenly able to detect when people "intend to provoke confrontations" because that's what Nooran's killer was reportedly doing for months, and the police force either didn't know or didn't care.

La mort de Nooran et la fin de la police communautaire – The Rover La mort par balle d'un adolescent non armé par la police devrait remettre en question l'excellente image publique dont jouit la police de Longueuil et le rôle joué par d'innombrables journalistes et é...

La mort de Nooran et la fin de la police communautaire.
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La mort par balle de Nooran Rezayi par la police devrait remettre en question l’excellente image publique dont jouit la police de Longueuil et le rôle joué par d’innombrables journalistes et élus dans la création de cette image. Mon texte dans Le Rover.