The way you address these things:<p>End the drug war entirely.  End vice prosecutions.  Focus on victimful crimes.<p>Increase the funds PD&#x27;s get to the level DA&#x27;s get.  A PD&#x27;s got a lot more to do than a DA, because the DA has police officers behind it feeding it cases.  Funding parity is a Schelling Point.<p>Stop electing DA&#x27;s, stop electing judges, stop electing sheriffs;  &quot;Tough on crime&quot; is the only campaign strategy these people use, and it&#x27;s implied to mean &quot;Harsher than was the case last year&quot;.  That outcome ceases to be remotely <i>just</i> after a few years.<p>Enfranchise felons with voting rights.  The reasoning that they&#x27;re incapable of voting correctly stems directly from racial persecution.<p>Cameras everywhere.<p>Training in conflict <i>de</i>-escalation, like the rest of the world&#x27;s police forces.<p>Reduce the prison sentences you give out substantially, and drastically increase spending on the crime-avoidance strategies we pilloried as bleeding-heart liberal ideas.  Turns out the most strongly supported finding in criminology is that they work a lot better than increased sentencing.<p>With the savings from all this prison reduction, build prisons that don&#x27;t inflict trauma on their prisoners, don&#x27;t require violence to survive in, and most importantly, don&#x27;t require joining an organized criminal enterprise, a prison gang, to be comfortable in.  Gangs destroy what little benefit you get from imprisoning people.<p>With what&#x27;s left over, shift resources away from SWAT &amp; drug enforcement, and towards dramatic increases in the size of the detective force.  Higher capture rates beat longer sentences at deterring crime by a very large factor.<p>Rebuild at least parts of the public mental health system that we shut down completely in the 70&#x27;s.