In Canada around this time, the streets filled with people demonstrating their own demands for justice and systemic change. Across the country, police budgets have continued to increase since the 2020 protests, with some cities passing larger increases in the period after the protests than before. These moves defy surveys showing that more than two-thirds of Canadians oppose increasing police budgets. It also confounds the promises of politicians in 2020 to reckon with police violence and systemic racism. The disconnect between growing police budgets and public consciousness has never been greater.

Source: The Star December 22, 2022 12:30 UTC