Are police in Montreal kept out of minority neighborhoods?

[Jeebo]

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I watched a movie a few days ago that suggests so. It's a French-Canadian French-language film set in Montreal. There's a scene about 26 minutes in where two plainclothes cops investigating a holdup are at the door of a residence in what is apparently a black neighborhood. A forty-ish black woman answers the door and the two identify themselves as cops. The black woman responds, "Cops aren't allowed in this area."

My question for y'all: Is this how they handle the problem of police violence against racial minorities in Montreal? They just forbid police from entering those neighborhoods? Or is there something about this scene that I'm not aware of that people who are well acquainted with Montreal will understand?

I've never been in Canada myself. Pardon me if I'm showing my ignorance.

Oh, and I almost forgot to say, the name of the movie is "The Fall/American Empire". I have no idea where or how or why they came up with that title, I can't see that it has any relevance to the events in the movie. It's a recent movie, 2018 I think.

-- Ron

[PoindexterOglethorpe]

1. I have no idea if that's accurate,

but there have been totally erroneous claims about certain neighborhoods in certain cities, both in this country and in Europe, as being "no go" zones for the police. Those claims are total bullshit.

I haven't seen that movie, but can you give a bit more context to the scene? What happens after that? Do the police go meekly away and someone gets away with the crime? I have a feeling that for some reason, possibly for dramatic purposes, they chose to make that scene that way.

[Jeebo]

2. There's a synopsis at the Independent Movie Database site.

www.imdb.com

The Fall of the American Empire (2018)

-- Ron