That’s a different thread. This is the “police murdered a guy while busting into the wrong house” thread.
I think you’ve at least partially answered your own questions here. Change the incentives and you change the behavior. What if police were incentivized to protect people. What if there was accountability for misconduct? What if the entire system was motivated to protect residents of their jurisdiction?
But those are long-term goals. What we can do in the short term is to demilitarize policing and scale back what police are asked to do to just what they are actually trained to do - be a violent response to a violent emergency - and stop distracting them with things they are shitty at, like solving crimes, resolving domestic disputes, helping people in mental health crisis, doing animal control, etc. Instead, lets take the bulk of the funding that currently goes to police and use it to fund departments that specialize in those things.
If that sounds good, well, that’s what defunding the police means.
