My opinion about this is first of all filter out whatever police unions or community activists are saying. The police unions do not have the civiloans in mind just like the school unoons dont have the children in mind. Community activists should be ignored since I don’t know what their end game is (dehumanizing all cops is something that is so irrational that can only be understood in the context of a much larger attack on our way of life).
That being said, I believe that the way policing and criminal justice is done is cyclic: There is too much crime. More policing and arrests. Crime goes down. Too many cops in quantity and tok much militarization and aggressiveness on the street. Police Brutality. Less policing and arrests. Crime goes up…. I think this actually is a healthy situation to be in, because we tweek our system to be responsive to changing dynamics. Everyone here surely agrees that there needs to be a balance between broken windows theory policing and deescalation of police aggression.