What we need are peace officers, not police officers.
The former is appropriate for a free people, the latter for slaves.
Culture problems must be dealt with by ethical politicians.
Crime problems - arresting suspects for the Court System to deal with - is the job of police.
Police are NOT babysitters, social workers or politicians. They identify people who have possibly broken the law and they bring them to the attention of a court system. That’s it. And that’s plenty. They deserve our respect and our support.
IN the rest of the Anglosphere, police are trained to calm a situation: In the US they are trained to enforce compliance.