In June 2020, New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio announced a $1 billion cut to the law enforcement budget. After a year, in April 2021, de Blasio reversed course and said the city would spend $92 million to create a new police precinct that was canceled last summer.
In Baltimore, Mayor Brandon Scott, a fellow Democrat, and who backed a City Council effort last year to cut the municipal police budget by $22 million, recently proposed a $27 million increase.
Los Angeles Democratic Mayor Eric Garcetti similarly proposed an increase of $50 million after cutting the police budget by $150 million last year. Other cities including Seattle and Oakland have followed suit.
Floyd was killed in May 2020 while in Minneapolis police custody, sparking a summer of social justice and "defund" protests.
In 2020, major U.S. cities such Chicago and Los Angeles, had a 33% increase in homicides, while 66 of the largest police jurisdictions had an increase in at least one category of violent crime, including homicide, robbery, rape, or assault, according to CNN.