evidence: Harris-Dawson said he remembers thinking that city leaders shouldn’t "govern by slogans," but also that they were clearly "being called on to look at how we are spending our money" on police, and that it was "as good of an opportunity as any" to do just that. Across the country, local leaders were grappling with whether their police budgets had become so lopsided that they were precluding more promising public safety initiatives — especially given that the onset of COVID-19 had sent many city revenues into a free fall. [...] He has said he would fund police to go after criminals and immigrants who are in the country without authorization in new, proactive ways, including through old strategies such as "stop and frisk."