Local officials are generally corrupt, so the police chief, whom is often fascist themself along with their higher ups and rank and file, can take any of them down for firing them, especially if they put a reformer in there, as the system unites to take down any sort of reformer in the cj system, mostly prosecutors to date.

Step one is to get better people elected, like don’t elect rich people with their hands in shady deals that could be accused by the police of being corrupt. Step something is definitely getting police representative of the community and not of the 4th reich to look over our progressive cities.