As we end 2022, police departments are experiencing a period of transition. After a tumultuous few years of negative public sentiment, people are taking a step back and coming to hard realization: We need the police. Challenge No. 1: Dealing with the public’s growing fear of lawlessness What is driving this? Just look at the evening news. Retail smash and grabs, package thefts, street take-overs, follow-home robberies, and gang shootings seem to be occurring at an ever more frightening rate. Oftentimes the people committing these crimes should have been in custody. https://youtu.be/dwyvBBwj4_I Some will argue that crime is still lower…