Police corruption, which had previously been glossed over by reformist appeals to root out the few bad apples, was finally cracked wide open, revealing the racist structural rot underlying the entire institution.

You mean, "we decided it is systemically racist despite the fact that data shows otherwise."

Maybe policing, as a concept, was bad? Maybe it couldn’t be reformed, but should be abolished instead.

Maybe you should go live in the hood for a year and then tell us what you think about abolishing the police?

I'm not a "back the blue" kind of guy, but I'm also not so naive that I think we can live without police.