Police Reform Badly Needed; Not Racial Incitement

 There will never be needed police reform if the focus on police cannot move beyond race and identity politics.

Race and identity politics are a business. There are those that profit from racial incitement and division. 

There needs to be an end to numbers game police work. Few if any so called police reformers even know what this is.

Real community policing must move away from the hands of ivory tower clueless academics. More cops need to be on the ground, on foot, serving the basic mission of serve and protect through patrol. Cops must not be used to generate meaningless statistics that do nothing to make communities safer. 

Police departments need to be lean. Layers of bureaucrats and upper echelon personal drain money from having cops on the streets. In urban areas, dedicated cops are needed on foot, walking beats where they become integral parts of the communities they serve. No able bodied cop should be at a desk job. Supervisors need to be streamlined, and must be out on the streets. Police departments must not be mired in petty politics, cronyism,  clout or political favoritism. Good, level headed cops on patrol that know how to properly escalate or de-escalate situations are what is needed, not defunded police. Defund the waste, but not the much needed basic police mission.