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Most U.S. Mayors Do Not Support Reallocating Police Resources, Survey Finds

Eighty percent of the mayors who responded say they believe their police budgets last year were "about right."
A protester hold a sign reading "Defund the Police" outside Hennepin County Government Plaza during a demonstration against police brutality and racism on Aug. 24, 2020, in Minneapolis.

The vast majority of mayors in American cities do not support sweeping changes to the funding of their police departments, and most say last year's racial justice protests were a force for good in their cities, according to a new survey of more than 100 mayors from across the U.S.

Eighty percent of the mayors who responded to the say they believe their police budgets last year were "about right." Most mayors said they did not support reallocating many,

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