La mairesse de Montréal, Valérie Plante, présente Fady Dagher comme nouveau chef du Service de police de Montréal, le 24 novembre 2022. La Presse canadienne/Paul Chiasson

Projet Montréal continue d’augmenter le budget de son service de police. Voici pourquoi

Le Service de police de la Ville de Montréal s’apprête à dépasser son budget encore une fois cette année. Aucune autre grande ville du Canada ne permet de tels dépassements budgétaires.
Police officers are seen in front of Parliament Hill in Ottawa in September 2023 at the conservative ‘1MillionMarch4Children’ protest. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle

Canadian cities continue to over‑invest in policing

Despite public calls to defund the police in 2020, the budgets of Canadian police forces have continued to rise.
Protesters demonstrate against the eviction of a homeless encampment under the Ville-Marie expressway in Montréal in July 2023. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Christinne Muschi

Montréal’s ‘mixed’ police squads don’t help the city’s unhoused people — they cause more harm

Front-line workers who support unhoused people say far from being a form of support, mixed police squads add a layer of surveillance and harassment.
A woman carries an umbrella outside a protest to defund the police in front of Toronto Police Service headquarters in July 2020. Police budgets have increased, not decreased, since then. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Two years after the defund the police movement, police budgets increase across Canada

New research shows police budgets have continued to increase in all major Canadian cities in the aftermath of the defund the police movement.

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