And that's the crux of the whole thing. I believe a higher educated, higher compensated and non union police officers would be what's needed in today's world.

I would like to see it tried in my lifetime but I may f off and die before it happens.

Don't you just hate it when things don't go exactly as planned...

Experience hath shewn, that even under the best forms of government those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
Thomas Jefferson