Police departments should not be defunded, but they should be reformed. Some reforms should be able to attract broad consensus. Herewith, then, are the ideas that should be the most unifying and the least divisive.

Research on all this is widely available, but this brief column isn’t meant to cite research to prove each suggestion is wise. Instead, it’s just a distillation of research, common sense, and a rough analysis of what many people of goodwill seem willing to accept.