Despite 2020 calls to 'defund the police,' police budgets across Canada have increased every year since
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The city of Memphis released bodycam footage of police officers beating Tyre Nichols, 29, for three minutes. He died from his injuries three days later. The video has renewed calls to reduce police budgets and divert that money to community supports but since 2020, when the police killing of George Floyd galvanized the campaign to defund police, police budgets for Canadian municipalities have increased every year.