You hit the nail on its head with how widespread the issue is. When people say policing needs to be reformed, I think they're referring to the system as a whole

You hit the nail on its head with how widespread the issue is. When people say policing needs to be reformed, I think they're referring to the system as a whole. But also, policing is the source of a lot of these issues so if you fix the issues with the source then you can cut off the downstream supply.