Cops are in full do-nothing mode these days, as witnessed in this photo sequence of a young man walking a pit bull without a leash on St. Catherine Friday.
The man stops to talk to police, who one might assume would have told him to put a leash on a potentially killer beast but indeed they simply smile and chat and allow the boy and his dog to continue without leash.
Montreal cops have given a lot fewer tickets since their pension dispute began - 41 percent fewer traffic and parking tickets according to one recent report.
Police officers are useful and necessary and I support them but there's clearly far too many of them and we could manage paying a lot fewer of them, as crime has diminished radically in recent years but policing staff levels have not and as these photos attest, they're not doing much of anything useful anyway.