a question has been posed, are police that do not live in the city they serve, an occupying force? Is that not why there is a residency requirement for elected officials?

New York State Sen. Kevin Parker makes the case for enacting a residency requirement for cops.

He has made police accountability a cornerstone of his legislative agenda in his two decades as a state senator.

His record includes passing laws creating a state Law Enforcement Misconduct Investigative Office, requiring body cameras for state police, establishing an explicit right to record police, and releasing police disciplinary records.

The NYPD had a residency requirement until 1962.

52 percent of NYPD officers live outside the five boroughs.

Law enforcement has lodged the understandable objection that housing is much more expensive within city limits, which can be especially burdensome for officers making the starting salary. But most other civil servants manage to live in the five boroughs, including almost 94 percent of NYPD civilian employees, and any officer wishing to live in the suburbs is free to seek employment there

https://nyc.streetsblog.org/2022/05/06/opinion-nypd-officers-must-live-in-the-city-the-serve-rather-than-being-an-occupying-force/

Frankly, I suspect that police have no wish to live where they work because they are so corrupt and cause so many to be outraged to a deadly level of revenge.