see, i've taken the same position with my remote learning 15 year old youngest son who wants to stay up all night and sleep all day. i don't like it. i actually hate it, partly because i also want to stay up all night and sleep all day. my wife hates it hates it. she wants to see him during the day, etc, and she uses his schoolwork lack as a reason. a damn good one, in fact.
i've told him, time and again, "look, dude, if you are current with your schoolwork, no one is in a position to complain about your hours."
mom's only objection so far is "you're behind on your schoolwork" so prove her wrong, son, and then do what you want.
apd is in a similar position. if you had, i dunno, been doing your jobs for, i dunno, maybe the last 20 years or so, things wouldn't have gotten so bad. if you keep up with property crime and sexual assault cases in any sense of the word"giveafuck" then you'd have a lot more sympathy in the community. but ever since apd went full on thug police force and started the mardi gras riot, it's been more of the same.
then art acevedo came and probably set apd back another 20 years with his backasswards dumbassery.