Defended or Defunded? The Local Effects of the 2020 Black Lives Matter Protests on Local and State Policymaking

• In Event: Police Power and Movements for Policing Reform

Brief Overview

We systematically investigate whether protest matters for local politics. We assess whether municipal police departments reduced or increased their budgets in response to protest and whether protest led to police reform at the state level.

Author

• Mathis Ebbinghaus, University of Oxford