Police I think are too centralized in their current form. A more diverse (hah) policeforce, in that they're actually from all the specific boroughs they... police, I think would work better than bringing in outsiders, even if "outsider" is only "they live 5 miles away". 5 miles is a lot of miles, the entire social landscape can shift in 5 miles. They can use a centralized dispatch center, or prison, or containment area, sure, but I think, wherever possible, policing of an area should be the "responsibility" of that area, and cops should be from the area they police, as accurately as possible.

If some place needs a lot more cops, get the army. Enemies foreign and domestic. That's what they're there for. Solving local problems locally gives more empathy, more opportunity to understand the circumstances, and suggest more useful sentencing. Right now, cops are just tools of the state-level (or province level for those non-Freedomers out there) administration, not actually participants in the local ecosystem.

So it makes sense they get pushback (or hate), because they're acting in a way that is jarring with the area's sensibilities, since the cops aren't from that area. Whether they deserve it or not is a different question of course, but I can see that causing some great amount of the dislike.

EDIT: Ultimately, cops are tools. There is no point in hating on a hammer or a chisel or a fancy laser-guided 3d sculpture thing. Any scorn, or praise, should be on the organizations that utilize these tools, at least from a morality standpoint. You can praise a tool for being good quality, or condemn it for being kinda shitty, but that's not a moral assessment, and "people" are hating on cops on a moral level, when it is hardly the cops deciding these things that are being done.

Police I think are too centralized in their current form. A more diverse (hah) policeforce, in that they're actually from all the specific boroughs they... police, I think would work better than bringing in outsiders, even if "outsider" is only "they live 5 miles away". 5 miles is a lot of miles, the entire social landscape can shift in 5 miles. They can use a centralized dispatch center, or prison, or containment area, sure, but I think, wherever possible, policing of an area should be the "responsibility" of that area, and cops should be from the area they police, as accurately as possible.

If some place needs a lot more cops, get the army. Enemies foreign and domestic. That's what they're there for. Solving local problems locally gives more empathy, more opportunity to understand the circumstances, and suggest more useful sentencing. Right now, cops are just tools of the state-level (or province level for those non-Freedomers out there) administration, not actually participants in the local ecosystem.