“improvement in recruiting of police”
I am not a big Bernie Sanders fan but he got this one right when he said that we need to attract better educated police officers and that it would take big pay increases to accomplish that. This is the opposite of de-funding police, which is one of the most stupid ideas to come down the pike in, well, since Trump said that we didn’t need coronavirus tests.
A major problem is that police in much of the US have been de-funded already because of tax cuts and spending caps. For example, New York City has just over twice the population of Los Angeles, but almost four times the number of police officers. Conservatives in California de-funded police (and everything else) with Proposition 13 and the various spending limits.