programmatic and training reforms that could improve policing would probably require "more" funding/investment, not less...

Tbf, I'm not well-versed in this area at all, and would welcome being corrected/persuaded to a more comprehensive view. But I draw from what I've observed is often done to address disparities in other domains (eg. healthcare, education).

I wonder sometimes whether there's some conflation of policing issues with the military industrial complex in the discourse?? There's painfully obvious intersection for sure, not denying that... but it does seem that solutions for each might/should need to be structured differently.

But again, just the first thing that comes to mind for me..