It’s not blame. It’s just another step of the process.
We have a long history of empowering and protecting police - both culturally and legally. There are limits to what that process youdescribed will allow. The police department/union will never enact certain reforms or give up certain powers willingly, so they won’t make it into the contract. The state government leadership will investigate/demand reforms/potentially file civil rights violations against the police department - but if the department is obstinate in the face of those changes - the federal government has stronger incentives to enact reforms that the community, the governor, and the legislature want.
Do you not believe that the federal government has a role to play in helping solve significant state level issues?
I mean - I’m pro-cop. I have police officers in my family, and I wish the solutions were as straightforward as you seem to believe everything they are; however, the fact that we have the same reoccurring concerns - year after year, decade after decade - strongly suggests that this is not easy or straightforward.
Certainly, federal intervention made a lot of sense during the Jim crow/segregation/civil rights era where state and local governments deliberately defied federal law.
Here, this is not happening. The local governments that harbor bad police want police reform. I believe they have plenty of power to do that.
You can’t literally fire all the police in a city, without at least significant state support. You do need someone to respond to emergencies/keep peace.
Put the reforms in the next contract. Set training and certification standards that exclude bad or lazy cops. Take the cops guns away, or whatever.
Blaming the federal government for local police problems in cities like Minneapolis does not make sense.