They really couldn’t have picked a worse way to brand this. Some of the underlying ideas (like having other people besides law enforcement deal with people having a mental health crisis or with the homeless or other situations where a specialist with more specific training can step in) aren’t bad, depending on the details of what actually gets implemented. Every LEO I know doesn’t want to have to deal with those situations anyway. Particularly in the case of people having mental health issues, there’s usually minimal training in how to handle that anyway. They’d happily hand that workload off to other people specially trained for it.
If the people pushing for this stuff had worked with LEO organizations like the FOP, they might have actually had a set of proposals with broad support, including from the law enforcement community. Instead it’s typical “us vs them” tribalism, and since most people understand the concept of the thin blue line, they’re going to side with police. Short-sighted foolishness and a wasted opportunity for change that could have benefited everyone.
Interesting that they had to differentiate between Democrats and Americans.