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Ted Rutland, Associate professor, Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University

Two years after the defund the police movement, police budgets increase across Canada

A woman carries an umbrella outside a protest to defund the police in front of Toronto Police Service headquarters in July 2020. Police budgets have increased, not decreased, since then. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

The worldwide protests against police racism and violence in the summer of 2020 brought greater public attention to police spending.

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