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All that sort of damage has also happened in plenty of situations when the police were not on strike, though... I don't think that one unusual event (an anecdote) is any indication of any larger pattern.

More to the point, though, the article doesn't suggest a complete abolition of all police; it suggests returning them to a more limited, core role.

>>flying+(OP)
Not only that, but there were police officers on duty in the city; per Wikipedia ‘The provincial government posted 400 officers from the Sûreté du Québec to Montreal in the morning.’

If anything, this is an experiment in what happens if you unexpectedly swap the police in a city for a different set in the middle of a crisis.