It’s been proven time and again that the cops don’t need to know or enforce actual laws. Suing cops is almost impossible, and when you sue the department, the taxpayers got the bill with little impact on the offending officer.

Police reform now.

if we make the taxpayers foot the bill for their police departments bad behaviors enough maybe they’ll start doing something about it

unlikely but it’s worth a shot

That’s how it currently is functioning and it doesn’t work particularly well.