The policing pipeline problem needs more work

You can't reform or improve policing unless more people want to be cops

In the closing days of the recent Chicago mayoral campaign, the head of the city’s Fraternal Order of Police said of Brandon Johnson, “if this guy gets in we’re going to see an exodus like we’ve never seen before” and that this would lead to “blood in the streets.”

If these tone-deaf comments were designed to get people to vote for Paul Vallas, they were…