It appears the Police Foundation was created by the Ford Foundation to push “Progressive” policies on police.
It looks far from objective to me, at least without a great deal of study. It was founded in 1970, and doesn’t seen to have any actual police in its organization.
The fact that it lists a survey of less than 50 police chiefs out of thousands, shows it is very selective in who it asks questions of.
That it claims two of the most important federal resources for police are ballistic imaging and gun tracing are red flags. Those two resources hardly ever amount to useful things for police, IMHO.
The other thing that stands out is this report is apparently created in partnership with “Major Cities” police chiefs, which are uniformly far left Democrats.