As a former chief equity officer in local government told us, “That means a call for a different way to govern.”Ī central plank in accountability-in that different way to govern-is gauging the equity impacts of public policy. The mass protests of 2020 were, after all, a call for accountability-not only in criminal justice, but across the functions of government and other institutions. But a clear lesson from our history is that such shifts in public attitudes do not automatically lead to institutional reforms.
There are encouraging long-run shifts in white Americans’ recognition, after generations of denial, that racism is real and pervasive. Two years after Floyd’s murder, the question of how to gauge that progress lingers without resolution. But beyond justice for George Floyd, how much progress have we made in addressing racial inequality in the U.S.? In Minnesota state court, a jury found former Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin guilty of murder, and in a federal trial, the other three officers were found guilty of violating Floyd’s civil rights. While the protests ostensibly focused on police killings of Black people, they also called out the systemic racism that fuels many other manifestations of racial inequality. On May 25, 2020, four Minneapolis police officers fatally injured George Floyd, a Black man, while he was under their custody-a searing, caught-on-camera killing that sparked the largest mass protests in American history.
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