Why you shouldn’t expect much from Biden’s plan to counter crime

If the problem was policing, then it will certainly take bold government action to improve policing and community relations — but mostly at the local level, because, if policing is the problem, it’s not because all the cities suddenly ran out of money to pay their police forces or because all the gun dealers simultaneously went rogue. Rather, the rupture between cops and communities made policing less effective from some combination of less active policing and less cooperation from a suspicious community.