It may not be a particularly good lever, but it's the one we have. Police departments will ignore all oversight, but they still can't spend money that doesn't e

It may not be a particularly good lever, but it's the one we have. Police departments will ignore all oversight, but they still can't spend money that doesn't exist. They will absolutely spend their crumbs on the most aggressive and vengeful policing strategies and tech they can find, and that will be an improvement over where we are today, where they spend a vast majority of their budget on that anyway.