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After George Floyd's death, protesters in the summer of 2020 shouted the slogan "defund the police" — a phrase rooted in a decades-old call for local governments to redirect money from police agencies to other forms of crime prevention.
The movement did force some cities to examine how to rethink police budgets, but nearly all major police reforms failed.