The Control of Public Spaces in Montreal in Times of Managerial Justice
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Abstract
In Montreal, homeless people and protesters receive a disproportionate number of statements of offence. These statements of offence are issued by the Montreal police department for the homeless and protesters’ occupation of public spaces (such as sleeping in a park at night or participating in an unlawful assembly). However, those offences are rarely tried and most of the statements of offence are instead withdrawn through prosecutorial discretion, but not before several court hearings. This process seems to indicate that the police court network is departing from the adjudicative ideal to enter a managerial justice paradigm. Punishment seems to happen both at the moment of the arrest and during the pre-trial procedures. In times of managerial justice, the police are punishing certain illegalities and the court is managing marginalized populations.
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Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it