Unfortunately, solutions have been methodically taken off the table.
So, all that is left is to argue over which false solution is better.
It is like the iron triangle.
You need a car to get to work
You need to work to keep your house
So, in order to live, you need a car, a job and a house.
And these are all quite expensive, and if ever you fall below a minimum threshold, your whole life collapses.
Police are the pointy end of politics.
They are a legal gang. They act like a gang.
Protecting fellow police officers is more important than anything. Laws, criminal violence, citizens lives...
In order to change this, we have to change things that can't even be discussed. First, every law should have to go before police who will vote whether it gets enforced. (at least 2/3s)
Second, police funding should be solely through and from the population they protect. And if they aren't doing a good job, that population can decrease their budget. In fact, I would suggest that it be an opt in arrangement. Where if you do nothing, then the police go away.
Third is real metrics. Currently police have quotas. So many tickets, so many arrests. But we do not go further and quantify how many good arrests, that actually went to trial and found guilty, vs plea bargains, vs just released. It is also important to note how much of a police persons time is spent on various things. Such as, in some jurisdictions, half of the homicides go uninvestigated. Just completely not looked into. The number one capital crime, and we have cops pulling people over for speeding instead?
Brothers in blue come first indeed... citizens are secondary. In-group v. out-group forming when the ingroup has the authority make for the Standford Prison experiment lol. Investigating ourselves always works well when our livelihood is on the line... follow the code.