The movement to shift funding away from policing and prisons and into social services and public safety programs gained significant traction four years ago during the George Floyd protests. Following the George Floyd protests, some cities initially made big changes, shifting hundreds of millions of dollars of city funds away from law enforcement. “Most budgets—whether at the municipal level, county level, state, or national level—almost a lion’s share of these budgets are committed to public safety. “We’re looking at shifting the paradigm in community safety to more front-end, solutions-driven approaches,” explains Cynthia W. Roseberry, director of the Justice Division at the ACLU. There are legislative efforts already underway to reimagine public safety and first responses.