Congratulations: you’ve just repeated the Police’s argument back at us.
The answer, in the US is, like, literally anything. They are actively doing more harm than good, replacing them with a vacuum until something better is implemented would be an improvement.
The “Yeah, we steal from the community, and we steal from passing travellers, and we kill people and literally straight up murder people and get promoted for it, but what are you going to do?” argument is bullshit. If only because it’s an excluded middle. “Those are your choices: us, or nothing! We continue to kill you with impunity, or it’s The Purge!”. Well, no. Those are not the only two options.
In any case, the answer is simple. What replaces them? Different, better police.
