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Canadian cities spend more on police than before 2020 ‘racial reckoning’

New study looks at police budgets in Canada's 10 largest municipalities, showing they've all increased to varying degrees since George Floyd protests of 2020.

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Jeremy Appel
Dec 16, 2022
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau takes a knee at a Black Lives Matter demonstration at Parliament Hill in June 2020. (Anthony Chiaka)

After a Minneapolis police officer murdered George Floyd in police custody in May 2020, mass protests erupted internationally, demonstrating pandemic restrictions wouldn’t inhibit social movements.

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