While we hear a lot about incidents of police misconduct, especially if it is outrageous, we rarely hear the other side.
Misconduct happens, is a problem, especially due to the power imbalance, and needs to be addressed.
But the police are also whom we turn to when we become a victim of a crime. The vast majority of doctors want to help their patients, even if they sometimes make a mistake, and even if a few doctors behave rude and inappropriately to their patients at times and even abuse their power. Most are idealists who have made their desire to help people their profession. Likewise, most police officers want to serve their communities and keep society safe. Unlike doctors, they receive a lot of hostility for it, though.
With all the understandable outrage at the moment, it may be a good approach to strenghthen ties between police and communities. E.g. by having school excursions to police departments, aving neighbors meetings with police officers from the local precinct, returning authority over the police to the elected sheriff, where it has been taken away and given to unelected police commissioners, etc.
The more people (and police officers are people, too) know each other personally, the less anonymous “the police” become and the more mutual understanding there will be.