ACAB. They force the good ones out.

Sure, but they should actually be more like lawyers.

My proposal:

Raise the rate of pay for officers to 1.5 million dollars per year, and reduce the number of police to 1/10th their current number.

BUT…

“Officer of the Law” requires a PhD level education in law, with testing such that you effectively have to score in the 90th percentile of test takes to be considered. Reexamination on constitutional, federal, state, and local law is done annually, with scores being made public. Like with the military, you are subject to an additional code of justice (something akin to the UCMJ) where violations of the law for those charged with it’s execution are significantly more serious, and all considered to be major crimes. Qualified immunity is entirely eliminated.

All of your actions as an officer are made public and are available for public review.

In addition police unions are required to carry civil liberties insurance which is legally required to be backed by police pension funds. When an officer of the law violated the civil liberties of an individual, the payment or settlement is drawn down from the entire retirement savings of a union, and as a officer of the law, you indemnify the jurisdiction of violations of civil liberties while you are in service .

Obviously this is a fantasy, but I think at least requiring police unions to indemnify jurisdictions on civil liberties violations, and requiring that civil liberties law suits be paid from union member retirement accounts is totally reasonable. And if we want it to be “fair”, them all unions could be bound by a similar policy (which like, they basically already are, in at least that your electricians union carries insurance if one of their members fucks up and burns your house down.)