>However, they rarely live where they work, which should change

That's a feature not a bug.

When you have a lot of unfair and unjust laws you need jackboots with no stake in the community in order to enforce them.

My state has some fancy words for justifying and obfuscating it but this is how they justify their policy of assigning state cops far away from their hometowns and residences for the first decade of their career. They want the cops to police the way the state wants them to police. They don't want them to think about what's best for the people being policed.

This is true, but I'd rather move to a society where the police officers have aligned interests to treat people as they want to be treated and the community as theirs too. Ending civil asset forfeiture, war on drugs, over incarceration, and qualified immunity would do a lot to nudge them.