"Defund" or "Refund" the Police?: City Council Responsiveness to the Black Lives Matter Protests

被引:2
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作者
Hoang, Bai Linh [1 ,3 ]
Benjamin, Andrea [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Texas Arlington, Dept Polit Sci, Arlington, TX USA
[2] Univ Oklahoma, Clara Luper Dept African & African Amer Studies, Norman, OK USA
[3] Univ Texas Arlington, Coll Liberal Arts, Dept Polit Sci, 701 S Nedderman Dr, Arlington, TX 76019 USA
关键词
defund the police; city councils; local budgets; protest behavior; RACE;
D O I
10.1177/10780874231187131
中图分类号
TU98 [区域规划、城乡规划];
学科分类号
0814 ; 082803 ; 0833 ;
摘要
In this research note, we investigate the degree to which local governments reduced or expanded the budgets of police departments in the aftermath of the nation-wide protests organized by the Black Lives Matter movement during the summer of 2020. We also consider the political and social factors that might explain local councils' decisions on the budget. In analyzing an original dataset of about 100 of the most populous U.S. cities, we do not find strong evidence of government efforts to "defund" the police. However, across various specifications of potential responsiveness to the movement's demands, we do find that mayoral partisanship may be associated with local government decisions to meaningfully reduce their police budgets or abstain from increasing them, but even this relationship may not be sustained in the longer term. Thus, we encourage more research on barriers that potentially inhibit local government responsiveness to social movements like Black Lives Matter.
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页码:387 / 419
页数:33
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