Pointless, politicians have no control over the police. A guy was elected here as a police reformer, his job was to not resign the current police contract and build a new force that was actually accountable to people who live here instead of federal thugs for hire who had been out of control and corrupt for decades.

Instead he was promptly raided by the same corrupt cops he wanted to disband a week into his term. Slammed with elections funding act violations and dozens of other charges. Didn't matter they were bogus charges, he spent his 4 years in office fighting the allegations and in and out of court, and even though fully vindicated when all charges were dropped and proved to be baseless, it was too late because the political image damage was already done, his party benched him and he soon resigned saying what a sham democracy has become, and how police reform is a pipe dream. The guy who replaced him resigned the contract for another 20 years.

Just because it failed once, doesn't mean it's pointless. The more it happens ("Gee, the last 7 mayors elected promising police reform were raided, none of the others were...") the more obvious it gets, and the harder it will be for police officers to look their friends and family in the eye while not standing up to such blatant corruption. That's not to say it's the only thing we should be doing, but it's something we should be doing.