Your reply reads like a depressing commentary on the state of our society. I don't agree that we will see a time when police are targeted in their homes and if

Your reply reads like a depressing commentary on the state of our society. I don't agree that we will see a time when police are targeted in their homes and if that ever happens it is likely to be a rare event. I agree with the part about our political mechanisms since so much of the process of making things work for everyone will require political action and compromises that are likely several years, though hopefully not generations, away. The first sentence of the last paragraph has likely always been true of any town or city. Then historically, townspeople who desire a stable existence with a rigid set of rules that apply to everyone will seek to install a lawman or peacekeeper. That lawman will be given responsibility for instilling order, enforcing the law, and detaining those engaging in criminal behavior so that the justice system can be used to determine their guilt or innocence and prescribe an appropriate penalty. Crime in one form or another has been a part of human existence for too many generations to count. Societies have their own mores and define their own set of behaviors that they endorse and that they will sanction. I see targeting police as a really stupid, monumentally bad move since they are the only ones who can reliably identify the bad actors in their midst. Doing stupid shit like that will only close their ranks and put a target on every law-abiding citizen's back as police become more paranoid than they already have been trained to be. We should incentivize the reporting of criminal behavior by law enforcement officers and work to open everything to public scrutiny. I don't know what that looks like technologically speaking but there should be tools in place to allow officers to report criminal behavior and the use of those tools should protect the officer reporting the crime since their own life may be at risk. No matter how much your local police suck, handing out lollipops to reward good cops will never be enough. We need tools that are easy to use, that satisfy the needs of the criminal justice system and enable effective prosecutions. The price of or penalty for non-compliance should be high enough that reporting is incentivized more than the current system of internal whitewashings or cover-ups.