he police are continuing to terrorize the friends of Nooran Rezayi, the 15 year-old the Longueuil police killed last fall. Today, the Montreal police raided several addresses in the south shore suburb as part of their investigation of the youth who were on the street that day.

Montreal transit cop (constable special) charged with assaulting and pepper spraying a Cree man a year ago. You know you messed up when *TVA* points out that giving transit cops pepper spray in 2023 was supposed to deescalate situations.

Great reporting from The Link on the increasingly reckless use of tear gas by Montreal police. They report tear gas was used 41 times in 2023 and 97 times in 2024. Police have gassed people sitting on patios and people trapped in areas with no exit. thelinknewspaper.ca/article/spvm...

Montreal police paid $1.8 million to purchase AI video analysis software last year, but refused to name the specific software or company. A student newspaper, The Concordian, did the digging. It's iMotion ROC, a product with scary capabilities.

«On nous vend l’idée que la police combat la pègre, mais la réalité est plus complexe. Dans les faits, une véritable petite armée de crapules travaille main dans la main avec les flics.» Un autre excellent texte d'Alex Popovic. pivot.quebec/2026/02/16/c...

he US-Israeli design for the "Gaza First Planned Community" in Rafah. It's like they asked AI for a generic "neighbourhood unit" drawn from the archive of colonial planning and counter-insurgency.

Alors que la mairesse de Montréal pousse pour que le SPVM s'équipe de caméras corporelles, cette entrevue met les pendules à l'heure: From George Floyd to Alex Pretti: “Copaganda” Author on Myths About Immigration, Crime & Policing www.democracynow.org/2026/1/27/al... cc @tedrutland.bsky.social

A group that supposedly combats racial profiling is once again calling for Montreal to introduce body cameras - a technology that does NOT reduce racial profiling or hold police accountable. montreal.citynews.ca/2026/01/23/c...

It's wild to watch Projet Montreal complain that the new administration killed off "participatory budgeting." During a pre-budget survey in 2020, 73% of Montrealers called for defunding the police. Projet ignored the result and removed the question from the next year's survey.

« Je ne peux pas contrôler ce qui se passe à travers la planète et qui peut avoir des répercussions sur le budget », avance le chef de police." 🙄

Citizens lodged an official complaint last year, after media outlets falsely reported that activists set cars on fire during the anti-NATO protests. The result? The Conseil de presse rejected the complaint b/c the false information came from the police. Victory for copaganda!

« Le Service de police de la Ville de Montréal a dépensé 60 millions$ plus que prévu l’an passé et demande une augmentation substantielle de son budget pour 2026. Une pratique qui est devenue coutume dans la métropole québécoise». Merci @pivot.quebec pivot.quebec/2026/01/22/l...

I'm proud of this one. Aaliyah and I trace how urban planning and policing evolved together from the 1970s to the present in North End Halifax, enabling racial violence and displacement through urban design, an increasingly aggressive war on drugs, and "community policing."

The most ridiculous and deceitful part of the 2026 Montreal budget is the suggestion that police body cameras will be introduced at a capital cost of $40M. The SPVM's own study estimated that using cameras would require hiring 200 more cops and civilian staff - $200M/year.

Montreal's ridiculous police force is expected to go over budget in 2025 by $60M. This happens *every* year. Since 2020, the SPVM has gone over budget by an average of $43M per year. No other police force in Canada goes over budget by more than $1M.

A snapshot of changing priorities at the STM, Montreal's public transit authority. Fewer metro/bus drivers, more security agents ("inspecteurs") and managers.

La guerre contre les itinérants n'est jamais assez agressive pour les personnalités de Quebecor, pour qui le fait de *voir* deux personnes consommer de la drogue est si traumatisant qu'elles implorent l'aide de Dieu.

It's incredible that you can publish a long story, which is mostly about what the Longueuil police are doing to stop youth violence, and not mention Nooran Rezayi and the wave of police surveillance and repression against racialized youth that led to his killing.

The SPVM concealed that it recently purchased an AI program that allows it to surveil citizens in public spaces. Alex helpfully places this move in a longer history in which the SPVM refuses to tell the public - and elected officials - what tech it uses. pivot.quebec/2025/12/08/i...

It's copadandize the children season. For the second year in a row, the SWAT team rappelled down the face of the Montreal Children's Hospital and then went inside to distribute gifts. Many hospital staff have criticized this training/PR exercise, but they've been ignored.

It's really frustrating to see Red Coalition, a group that opposes racial profiling, call for police body cameras and claim they increase "the chances of [victims] getting justice." They simply don't. globalnews.ca/news/1155854...

Just in time for debates about 2026 police budgets: a CBC article that turns a *decline* in violent crime on public transit in 2024 into a headline about *rising* violence across Canada. The graphs are from the article itself.

The scandal is that we're asking cops to teach youth about consent in the first place. Like why???

The Guardian reports "the US is planning for the long-term division of Gaza into a 'green zone' under Israeli and international military control, where reconstruction would start, and a 'red zone' to be left in ruins." It's "strategic hamlets" (Vietnam war) all over again.

If we needed more evidence that Projet Montréal isn't a left-wing party, this tweet captures it. Mamdani has never emphasized equity or inclusion (liberal concepts), but the redistribution of wealth and power from the wealthy to the working class (in all its diversity).

The ability of police to present themselves as victims is incredible. The SPVM was a mess under Pichet, the city decided it couldn't fire him, so he was paid $400K/year to do nothing. He now won a case against the city, where the "harassment" is being paid to do nothing.

A breakdown of the preliminary results of the election.

"Whoever wins the election, I hope Transition’s platform encourages Montrealers to revisit ingrained assumptions. Public safety is not a synonym for police, and there are ways of addressing problems like racial profiling that can actually create a safer city for everyone."

It's wild how little the candidates in this election have talked about, or been asked about, police racism and violence. The SPVM has killed five people since the last election and a Superior Court judge found the city responsible for encouraging racial profiling. No big deal.

Journalists and communicators can shift coverage and provide context to help counter copaganda. Our latest online resource⬆️ is a guide for how journalists/communicators can deal with law enforcement disinformation. It expands on our “Don’t Be A Copagandist” guide series, which you can find here:

Ensemble Montréal has repeatedly said that "according to the most recent statistics," Montreal is the only large city in Canada to see housing starts decline three years in a row. The claim is based on 2024 data ... but we're in the fall of 2025. Here's the most recent data:

Projet Montréal's 20-20-20 policy on new condo developments is constantly described as a "failure." It's not. In practice, it requires condo developers to pay into a fund, which is then used by the city to buy land and rental units - and to turn them into social housing. 1/6

Why are police brotherhoods and certain activists demanding police body cams - for radically different reasons? This article looks at how body cam companies, police groups, and pro-police politicians have spread the lie that the technology reduces police violence.

The propaganda effort at CBS News has begun in full force. There's this absurd hit piece saying his election would cause a large exodus at the NYPD.

the war on drugs is a weapon of state power its not about drugs

Pourquoi les fraternités de policiers et certains militants réclament-ils des caméras corporelles ? Je retrace l’histoire des caméras ici, en montrant comment une tech qui renforce le pouvoir et l’impunité policière en est venue à être vendue comme une réforme. www.ledevoir.com/opinion/idee...

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.

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 mediacoop.ca/node/119306

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.

"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!

«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. pivot.quebec/2025/09/29/g...

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 ..."

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.

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."

"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." #Quebec #Canada #Policing