Gonna piss some off, but .... Police officers NEED to come from the very communities that they serve. Officers need to live in the communities they police, know the people, be involved in the community. The problem is that in certain communities, police are demonized and vilified, sooooooo the residents view the police as the enemy and therefore the officers that police those communities dont live in them, dont know the people, and .... arent involved in the community.
The local precincts need to embrace community policing by prioritizing qualified members of the community being hired on as officers AAAAAAANNNNNNNDDDDDDD the community needs to embrace their police departments (via inviting local police departments to job fairs in high schools, tents set up at local events, etcs) that encourages community members to join the police force to "serve" their community.
Unfortunately ... if that were to occur, community "activists" would go broke because their "roles" would no longer be needed. Sooooo the vicious cycle goes around and around with communities of color not trusting their police and the police serving a community they dont really have anything to do with.
Just my opinion ...........