Agree 100%. Police need to be men of the highest moral character. With the amount of police in this country, I doubt there are enough moral men to fill the slots.
I would like to see a return to walking your beat. Get to know those you are serving. Have a vested interest in the people you protect.
In this environment today, why would men of the highest moral character even want to be policemen? This is one of the things Leftist social engineering has achieved.
“I would like to see a return to walking your beat. Get to know those you are serving. Have a vested interest in the people you protect.”
That’s romantic but it has two problems. One, you ready to pay for about 10 times the number of cops? Or to accept that a 9/11 response will be much slower with a much less well equipped cop who has no ability to do anything to stop bad guys who widely use cars?
And two, that being super close, and really “getting to know people” is a direct path to corruption. The closer you are... the “closer” you are. I give you New York, Boston, etc.