Police tweak policy on street checks, but advocates want them banned outright
From CKUT Local Journalism Initiative · 00:02:53
Show by Jules Bugiel
Episode Notes Montreal police announced on Monday that a new policy will govern the practice of street checks. Advocates say the SPVM should put an end to the controversial practice instead. With street checks, officers can stop individuals and ask them to identify themselves without reasonable suspicion of a crime. An SPVM-mandated research team found the practice was used disproportionately against Black, Arab, and Indigenous Montrealers, and called for a moratorium. Instead, the SPVM say they’re now making it mandatory for officers to tell people stopped that they are free to leave. This adds to an existing requirement that mandated officers tell individuals why they had stopped them. The Montreal-based Ligue des droits et libertés tells CKUT the changes don’t go far enough to protect personal freedoms and correct the racial disparity.
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