Couple paragraphs that stood out to me- richer low crime cities getting more experienced officers now, post-Floyd efforts as drags that fuel support for more heavy "law and order" public sentiment off outcomes. The far left stuff is not popular with hardly anyone especially the most impacted communities.

Politically at the national level imo Biden and the Ds were spinning after GF, took too long to counter the narrative, but he did it eventually and kept with "fund the police" as far as I'm aware of after that. Just crazy times that summer w/ Covid, GF, Trump stuff, still dizzy.

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A related phenomenon has seen officers transfer from departments in big cities with high crime rates to agencies in wealthier, smaller cities with less crime, a lower cost of living and higher salaries. According to the New York Times, the New York Police Department saw more resignations last year than at any time in the past two decades. At least 14 of the department’s officers moved to Aurora, Colorado; others have accepted $5,000 signing bonuses to move to Florida.
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Peter Moskos, a sociologist and former Baltimore beat cop who now teaches at John Jay College of Criminal Justice, said that “pre-George Floyd, reformers would work with the police.” He sees much of the post-Floyd legislation—such as limiting when police can stop drivers, as San Francisco has done, or eliminating most cash bail, as New York has done—as coming from activists who see policing as malign. “The idea that you can reform police in opposition to the police is crazy.”
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People in crime-ridden communities do not say they want to defund or abolish the police.
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Officers, says Jacob Frey, mayor of Minneapolis, “need to be paid more, fired more and trained more”: the first to attract good recruits to a dangerous, necessary job; the second to ensure that those who abuse their badges can be got rid of; and the last to keep them effective.