My city was one of the few that put a killer cop behind bars, but our outgoing governor changed all that today, sadly. It's a massively unpopular move here, but we're effectively powerless to change it as the incoming governor is a Republican and our state is gerrymandered red.
Further, we Kansas Citians do not have local control over KCPD. Our police are state-controlled, which is you can imagine, the Republicans in Jefferson City like very much.