Pressured by social media shaming, op-eds, and behind-the-scenes phone calls, LAHC declined its CVE grant nine days later. It was a major victory against CVE policing in Detroit, but a slew of other organizations, in "locations across the country such as Boston, Minneapolis, Los Angeles"—cities with already established hardline CVE policing programs—as well as other locations tapped for similar programs, accepted the funding. MPAC kept the reported $400,000 it received and still collaborates with DHS in carrying forward CVE policing within and beyond Los Angeles, where a hardline CVE policing program has existed since 2014. Even universities cashed in on CVE funding—the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill was the biggest recipient.

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