Sorry, your comment about one good cop in twenty years makes it impossible for me to take you serious.
You have no idea how many calls officers have, where nothing happens except a tense situation is made better.
You idea of community policing is nutty. What do you think police departments are?
The police chief answers to another leader in the community, and ultimately a person runs for office. They answer to the public.
Once again, if you open this up to communities, you have a power grab. One person in the community has power and everyone else answers to him. Since his group has the power, he can’t be removed.
You have feuds, running battles, essentially anarchy from day to day.
Thank you for what I am sure is your considered opinion. Since you disdain to engage in discourse about this subject, but choose to vilify my opinion, let us have no more to do with this.