Abolishing the Police with Ted Rutland

The Midnight Choir

Is it time we started to consider changing how we view policing? This week we're joined by Associate Professor Ted Rutland, who researches urban politics, planning and policing at Concordia University. We talk about the function the police serve in our society, how to envision violence prevention and response without the police, and why the SPVM recently intervened at the pro-Palestine encampment set up by students at Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) but not at the one set up on McGill University's campus.

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BLACK PEOPLE IN JAIL:
https://www.justice.gc.ca/eng/rp-pr/jr/obpccjs-spnsjpc/index.html
RACIAL DISPARITY WITH POLICE:
https://www.ohrc.on.ca/sites/default/files/Racial%20Disparity%20in%20Arrests%20and%20Charges%20TPS.pdf
INDIGENOUS JAILED:
https://www150.statcan.gc.ca/n1/pub/85-002-x/2023001/article/00004-eng.htm
LIKELIHOOD OF INTERACTIONS WITH POLICE:
https://www.utpjournals.press/doi/full/10.3138/cjccj.2020-0004
TIM BOOK:
https://fernwoodpublishing.ca/book/out-to-defend-ourselves
MONTREAL POLICE BUDGET:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/montreal-police-budget-canadian-cities-1.7062604#:~:text=In%20the%20past%20decade%2C%20the,deficit%20ballooned%20to%20%2480%20million.
MONTREAL TRANSIT AUTHORITY:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/stm-budget-cuts-job-loss-montreal-1.7102008
POLICE REMOVE ENCAMPMENT EAST HASTINGS:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/vpd-encampment-removal-1.6802439
32% RISE IN HOMELESSNESS VANCOUVER:
https://hsa-bc.ca/_Library/2023_HC/2023_Homeless_Count_for_Greater_Vancouver.pdf
HOMELESSNESS GROWTH IN CANADA
https://www.infrastructure.gc.ca/homelessness-sans-abri/reports-rapports/pit-counts-dp-2020-2022-results-resultats-eng.html

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