What happened to the promise of 2020?
Sure, Donald Trump was booted from the White House that year. But as his current status as the leading Republican candidate for 2024 indicates, that feeling of accomplishment was fleeting. The hope of real policy reform, at least as it relates to policing and justice, held out for just a bit longer. Three years after the brutal death of George Floyd, crushed under a Minneapolis police officer's knee, the dream of defunding bloated local police budgets look like it's been deferred and more like it's dead.
