Brownstein: Walking the walk with beat cops trying to break down barriers

He’s a familiar face to many in the downtown/Westmount corridor. Christopher Brault sports a disarming grin that appears cemented to his mug. What some may find strange about this picture is that Brault is a cop covering one of the most dramatically diverse districts in the city, dealing with everyone from the well-heeled to the homeless.
Brault, a fluently bilingual 14-year veteran of the SPVM, works out of Station 12, whose boundaries go from St-Antoine St. to the top of the mountain, Cl