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Bai Linh Hoang

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URBAN AFFAIRS REVIEW,Vol.60,Issue1,P.

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英文

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IntroductionIn the summer of 2020, the murder of George Floyd by Derek Chauvin, a Minneapolis police officer, along with several high-profile killings of Blacks at the hands of law enforcement, sparked a wave of protests organized by the Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement in more than 2,000 cities across the United States (Buchanan, Bui, and Patel 2020). One major aim of the protests was to direct attention to the disproportionate use of police aggression that communities of color, especially Black communities, deal with and the disparate and unequal treatment they encounter within the criminal justice system. Thus, participants within the BLM movement protests demanded significant reforms within law enforcement agencies, such as efforts to promote greater police accountability and de-militarize the police. One plea that received significant attention in the media was the call to “defund” the police—significantly reduce the budgets of police departments and redirect funds to other organizations within the city that, according to the protesters and critics, are better equipped to handle the problems police are ill-prepared to deal with.