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标题：The $2 Billion-Plus Price of Injustice: A Methodological Map for Police Reform in the George Floyd Era
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作者：David Schultz
期刊名称：Mitchell Hamline Law Review
出版年度：2021
卷号：47
期号：4
语种：English
出版社：Mitchell Hamline School of Law
摘要：The death of George Floyd on May 25, 2020 under the knee of a Minneapolis police officer forced America again to confront the connection between racism and law enforcement. It also compelled the City of Minneapolis to act. Merely a few days later on June 7, 2020 a majority of Minneapolis City Council members called for a defunding of police, 1 setting off a similar set of movements nationally.2 After efforts to place an initiative on the 2020 ballot to eliminate the police failed,3 and the City Charter Commission rejected the idea,4 on December 10, 2020 the Minneapolis City Council voted to divert $8 million from the police budget to fund alternative programs.5 The Mayor subsequently approved the budget cuts.In taking this action, the City of Minneapolis took its first steps to defunding or reimagining policing.