My answer to "what would you replace the pigs with?" is always "nothing, you don't replace cancer with another illness, you replace it with health".
Edit: On a related point, "how is society supposed to function without cops?" tells you exactly how empty and fascistic liberal ideology really is. "How is society supposed to function without murderous fascists running around murdering people with state imprimatur?" is not actually a hard question unless, at the base, you think murderous nazis are a good thing
a big part of the problem is that basically the entirety of US culture talks about how the police are necessary, and without them crime would come back and consume the nation, so a few '''''false positives''''' here and there are '''''unfortunate side effects'''''. and a lot of them are still stuck in that. Even "on the left", it's maddening.
crime has been going down, when you filter for things that were brought in to offset the decline of criminal arrests -- drugs, homelessness, things resulting from having to survive while dealing with exploitative dealers or homelessness in a country that hates you (smash and grab cars, etc).
and WHITE COLLAR crime is what's been rising, even though those get far less offenses and you can get hired after doing them.
the cops don't even serve the purpose they hide behind.
