Their job isn’t to protect us, that’s a misnomer, their job is to enforce laws by submitting possible offenders for punitive adjudication. The only way that they can do that efficiently is via force; as such a behavior is in itself abusive, it will be resisted often.
Police Forces need to be replaced with Civilian Protection Services: unarmed, but arms trained, servicemen and women who act as mediators and patrol our communities on our behalf: identifying threats to peaceful society, and peacefully working to remove those threats through the prescription and provisioning of various civil services.
Armed SWAT teams should still be in place in big cities or by county, so they can be used like Firemen; but tactically deployed to severely hostile situations rather than to put our fires. They’d be restricted to armed bank robbery, armed hostage situations, active shootings, et cetera…
