Both the woke left and the reactionary right agree that the state and local police are an army of occupation directed at large minority communities. To the right, this is a regrettable necessity to protect “real Americans” from the predations of savages; to the left, it is an obvious and obnoxious manifestation of institutional racism.
Effective policing, of course, is only possible with the active support of the community. The trick, therefore, is to prove the extremists on both sides wrong.