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Montréal’s ‘mixed’ police squads don’t help the city’s unhoused people — they cause more harm
Monday, October 9th, 2023
The squads add a layer of surveillance and harassment that leads unhoused people to leave the spaces they know best and distance themselves from their support network in order to avoid police… the report calls for a new approach to homelessness, including abolishing mixed squads and reallocating their funding to two types of interventions.
Tags: crime prevention, homelessness, mental Health, poverty
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