A unioned police officer would happily use that week off decompression to do nothing at all.
I'd also like to do a lot of things to reduce the work loads of existing police officers, like not sending people with guns to situations that won't involve guns. Unfortunately, every situation in America potentially involves guns, so that may be an intractable problem. But it would be nice to start with "This situation calls for a counselor rather than a cop", and let the cops handle more cop-oriented situations.