Marathon Strategies

HOW A NATIONAL CONVERSATION ON SOCIAL JUSTICE DROVE LEGISLATIVE ACTION AT THE STATE LEVEL

Say Their Names Report

In 2020, demonstrations against police brutality were not confined to the streets. But has the historically high online conversation about policing influenced legislative action at the state level? This is what we had in mind when we undertook Say Their Names, a project that aimed to track and analyze public sentiment toward police reform, state-by-state, and compare that sentiment with the volume of police-reform proposed or enacted by each state’s legislative and executive branch.

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